Word: pocketing
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...think both of 'em can make it," McCurdy proffered. "The thing you have to remember about them is that they're good. Reed's a proud kid, and I think he's sick and tired of losing to people he knows he can have in his hip pocket...
Everyone will be in the Crimson's hip pocket if some of the other leading contenders at camp come through--seniors Rock Moulton and John Chafee, and well-respected milers Thad McNulty (a junior) and John Murphy (a soph...
Volunteering is not self-sacrifice, it is doing work for the love of it, or because you badly want to see the job done. For those two motives I will do any job unpaid, if the paycheck for another job is already in my pocket...
...produce a class of Renaissance men and women. Moreover, certain other courses sprang up that appeared designed to accomodate the needs of specific clienteles: the Natural Science coruse, for instance, that would approach scientific issues from a philosophical or political perspective, or the Humanities course custom-built for the pocket-calculator, pre-med set. James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government and chairman of the special Task Force that reported on the Gen Ed system two years ago said then that "We have never really abandoned the principle of General Education. But the present General Education guidelines are ineffective...
...watchful godfather of The Godfather never missed a shuffle of the paperback poker game: "While I was playing tennis it was up to 1.6, something like that. Then after dinner it was 1.8. It was Ballantine, N.A.L., and up to 1.5 Bantam was in it. The last three were Pocket Books, Ballantine, N.A.L. Then at 9 o'clock I got a phone call. Ballantine and N.A.L. were up to 2.4. Then I got a final call saying that Ballantine and N.A.L. were at 2.5 and 2.55, and if it was O.K. with me, we'd take it. They...