Word: pocketing
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...impatient over the lost time. His only relaxation, he says, is to run a mile a day, walk his beagle Patches and spend time with his grandchildren. Helms does not drink but smokes a pack of cigarettes over a couple of days. He carries Lucky Strikes in his shirt pocket and always offers one to visitors, sometimes thanking people when he sees them smoking. He seldom forgets his North Carolina roots...
...satirically pious story tells how a soldier's breast-pocket Bible stopped the bullet en route to his heart. Ronald Reagan had no Bible in his jacket outside the Washington Hilton several weeks ago, but some of the world idly suspected that he may have been otherwise armored-that in some obscure way he may have been protected by his own remarkable luck...
...Begin: He invests words with magical properties. Begin is absolutely convinced that he holds the truth in his back pocket. Consequently, in addressing others-including the heads of great nations-he adopts the manner of a teacher talking to his pupils. There is something overbearing about his manner, and I suspect it has infuriated certain key figures in Washington, Cairo and elsewhere...
...every few years-or months-some charismatic public character takes a slug from an itinerant mental case caressing a bizarre fantasy in his brain and the sick, secret weight of a pistol in his pocket...
...fall, and heroes may come and go, leading ladies obey the immutable laws of the genre. As Author Patty Matthews has it: "You get your heroine up a tree and then throw stones at her. In the end she gets the man, the money and the happiness." In Rhapsody (Pocket; $2.75), a typical contemporary, Lane is afraid to tell the desirable pianist, Michael, that she is a talent agent. When he discovers her occupation, Michael mistakenly believes that she loves him only for his signature on a contract...