Word: pocketing
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...dingy cavern called the Roxy in London, and The Rat in Boston. There, shock is chic. Musicians and listeners strut around in deliberately torn T shirts and jeans; ideally, the rips should be joined with safety pins. Another fad is baggy pants with a direct connection between fly and pocket. These are called dumpies. Swastika emblems go well with such outfits. In London, the hair is often heavily greased and swept up into a coxcomb of blue, orange or green, or a comely two-tone. Pierced ears may sport safety pins, some made of gold or silver. Of late, punk...
...This puts transatlantic air travel in the pocket of the workingman," proclaimed Freddie Laker, the scrappy founder of Britain's Laker Airways, when in 1971 he first proposed Skytrain "shuttle" flights between New York and London at rock-bottom prices. Six years of governmental turbulence have held up the takeoff, but last week President Carter approved Laker's plan. Since the British government assented in February, Laker's three red, white and black DC-10s are now cleared to begin flying passengers Sept. 26 at the lowest fares ever quoted: $236 round trip...
Green appeared to have the championship in his back pocket when he went two shots into the lead by birdieing the par-five 16th. He rifled a wedge shot that to use one of his own favorite expressions "came down like a butterfly with score feet" within a yard of the flagstick...
...room is modern. A Lanier pocket secretary is at the ready to help Carter sort out his days. The room is old. A replica of a flintlock made for Carter, which he has actually fired, hangs behind his chair. Miss Lillian's photograph is near by, but not as close as a model that shows all of our nuclear missiles. A massive ship's clock of brass thunks out the hours and minutes, but there is also a digital timepiece that silently flashes the fleeting seconds...
McCarney hitchhiked from Churdan, Iowa, to Bismarck in 1932 with 50? in his pocket and stayed to make his fortune selling cars, but the referendum is his game and he has been playing it with skill and delight since 1963. He failed that year to persuade the Republican state legislature not to increase income taxes. Then he discovered a swift way to block the legislation: gather 7,000 signatures and put the issue on the ballot. He collected the petitions, had his referendum, and nixed the tax increase by a margin...