Word: pocketing
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...House last week deleted funds for it and some other controversial projects, partly in retaliation against Congressmen who had led the fight against pay increases. But Clinch River has one invaluable patron in the Senate, Howard Baker. He told his staff that he had to reach deep into his pocket of lOUs in order to save the project, which he did on a 49-to-48 vote...
Harvard opened the second stanza aggressively. Forward Marget Long scored on a baseline jump shot from about 18 feet out Guard Ann Scannell then stole the ball, drove in and hit a short jumper. Co-Captain Pat Harne followed with a 15-ft. all-net shot from the pocket. Only 1:44 had elapsed when Holy Cross Coach Palazzi called a timeout to slow the Crimson momentum...
...scholarship fund. One lobbyist proposed that bumper stickers be printed reading "Smash that bottle, crush that can. Go to college as cheap as you can." These critics would seem to overlook the plight of the average college student, whose most immediate concern is the nickle in his pocket--not some fund far down the road...
...Pocket Money (1972): Loved the character, the script never came together though...
There he quickly learned English, finished high school in a year and a half, and relearned the ways of civilization. Ruefully, he recalls his reaction when a boy teasingly slipped a banana peel in his pocket: "I swung a Landsberg jailhouse punch at him," acting "as if he wanted to kill [me]." But Pisar had for gotten how to apologize. "I had been in hell too deeply and too long. The next day presented him with two pounds of bananas...