Word: pocketing
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...more of a doomsday quality, a sense that they signify some clock ticking down to a college apocalypse—a clock that is just beginning to become audible. These lists have titles written in red, sometimes underlined twice. And rather than being creased and tucked into the back pocket of one’s blue jeans, they have made their way to the marquis of college dorm rooms—front doors, common room walls, magnetized refrigerator sides. Their headings read “To Do Before Graduation” or “Top Ten Must Sees?...
...little an examined historical figure. Symbols are for newcomers and neophytes (for instance, babies have symbolic sight). Symbols have the effect of telling you what to think. Instead, Columbus Day should tell us what to think about. This October, we were thinking about boxcutters and anthrax and the little pocket of utter immorality in Afghanistan. This is the kind of historical bowel-loosener that makes Columbus (or logging in Alaska or animal cruelty or violence on television) seem like a pretty pathetic target for protest. Now that Sept. 11 is the official symbol of moral anachronism, Columbus Day can finally...
Staph and Palazzo ran free against the Big Red, gaining five to six yards on every carry. Rose has barely been touched this year, and with more than enough time in the pocket he has tossed six touchdowns and no interceptions...
...Harvard] to give the Mahoney’s site to the community is nothing out of their pocket,” Riverside resident Joan Qualls-Harris says. “But the good faith it would create would be more beneficial than anything you could build there...
...wore on, more and more Taliban fighters, from a different group from that of our departed escorts, arrived. Their expressions told us something was wrong. A translator said the new group was accusing us of taking pictures at Bamiyan. Another English speaker then removed a pornographic photograph from his pocket and claimed it was mine, further declaring that it was a picture of my wife. He assured me that I would be punished. I repeatedly denied my guilt. The men demanded our cameras and the rest of our packs. We refused. An AK-47 was thrust in my chest...