Word: pocketing
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...that Wickenden's midair decision was a happy one Maybe, away from the hustle and bustle of transcripts his mind cleared: maybe he couldn't bear the thought of returning to face a campus of sullen undergraduates, maybe he happened to pick up an airline magazine from the seat pocket, and Brooke's smile warmed his heart. Or he may have thought seriously, and sensibly, about the trap the committee had fallen into...
Each of us chooses what we want to act on and how: it is for no one else to condemn or ridicule the tactics chosen, especially when no violence is involved. So unless someone out there has got the recipe for World Salvation in his or her pocket (and is willing to part with it cheap. I guess). every and any action which attempts to give voice to what little is left of ethical conscience in the world at large at fair Harvard in particular deserves our respect. With this, and despite the fact that I choose for personal reasons...
Other important tools of his trade can be found in a sagging pocket. There repose a barlow knife and a buck knife for whittling when somebody makes him wait and a hard Arkansas whetstone for sharpening when somebody makes him wait longer. When the subject of an interview at last gives him an audience, Windsor puts away his knives, and when the subject says something that impresses this porcine correspondent, Windsor has been known to gush, "God bless your old heart...
...meet individuals mostly, each supposedly filling a pocket of French life. There are three comedians, who turn out to have nothing in common except that they "take defenseless little children seriously. "There are lovers ("The French are moving towards a society of pals, away from an ideal of passion.") There are workers and scattered archetypes: the bourgeois Plane Bourcel who fears the rise of laziness, or "je m'en foutisme"; the Duc de Brossac who does not know the meaning of the word meritocracy. More often, Zeldin offers type and then shatters it (we discover that Brigitte Bardot likes "looking...
Halfway up this grim parapet of fate is a scooped-out ledge, a pocket of tenuous survival, where two men lie panting for breath. Taylor (Jeffrey DeMunn) and Harold (Jay Patterson) have reached the summit of K2. At 28,250 ft., this Himalayan peak is the second highest mountain in the world, topped only by Everest. On the way down, Harold lost his footing and suffered a critical leg wound. Only Taylor can descend for help. He is short 120 ft. of much needed rope, having left it at the last stopping place. He climbs the sheer wall three times...