Word: pocketing
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...James Comey, criminal-division chief in the local U.S. Attorney's office: "People carried guns because gun-possession crimes were not treated as anything more than a misdemeanor. What might have been a fistfight or stabbing 20 years ago was a shootout because everybody had a gun in his pocket...
Walking to the elevator, those two bills nestled safely in my pocket, I realized--come to think of it--I had never really "caught" a taxi...
Walking to the elevator, those two bills nestled safely in my pocket, I realized--come to think of it--I had never really "caught" a taxi...
...also allows impatient publishers to rush out red-hot, news-inspired books ahead of the competition. Last week Pocket Books trumpeted the release of a POD edition of Knockdown by Martin Dugard. The book, an account of the 1998 Sydney-to-Hobart yacht-race disaster that claimed six lives, won't be finished in hard cover until September. But the POD copies will be competitive with rivals...
...olds. Yet far from being self-indulgent fluff, a perceptive and sharp wit prevents the songs from growing tiresome. On the opening track, Murdoch confides, "The priest in the booth had a photographic memory for all he had heard. He took all of my sins, and he wrote a pocket novel called The State I Am In. And so I gave myself to God, there was a pregnant pause before he said OK. Now I spend my days turning tables round in Marks & Spencer's, they don't seem to mind." The narrator is less whiny than smug to point...