Word: pocketing
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...places, was peeling. Actually, it had recently been covered with a fresh coat of blue paint, but there were no signs warning anybody, and if you hadn't already noticed, blue paint and gold corduroys just don't make it. You feel like the pen in your left pocket has just leaked, and this time, it wasn't even your fault...
...says it was common for the KCIA to hand junketeering Congressmen cash-filled envelopes to compensate them for their own and their wives' personal expenses on trips to South Korea. Thus the Congressmen could properly record and pay for their wives' expenses without being out of pocket at all. Lee, following his defection after 20 years of government service, testified to the FBI in 1973, but his allegations began to arouse interest only last summer, when a House International Relations subcommittee, headed by Minnesota Congressman Donald Fraser, again quizzed Lee. Fraser got the Justice Department to open...
...largely overcome, hostility from blacks diminished, and a shortage of money (for more than a month Moynihan was unable to air radio and TV commercials) proved not to be a major factor. Even though Moynihan banged his head and wrenched his neck when his small plane hit an air pocket, and had to spend three precious days recuperating, he easily made up the lost time. For his part, the normally couth and courteous Buckley turned tiger, depicting Moynihan as a fuzzy-minded liberal professor whose wild spending schemes would cost wage-earning families of four $63 a week...
...suddenly close in and stop abruptly with a fence. Stray dogs and debris wander into the blocked street. Beyond it is another district, perhaps with a small church or some woods. But the map, marked by intersecting lines, gives no hint of a dead end, no whisper of a pocket of the city which is so neatly hidden. There is nothing to do on such streets but go back or remain trapped, feeling cheated by the map and your imagination...
...busy following Ford from coast to coast. The logistics of the schedule, Fischer finds, can present peculiar problems, like having to surrender his luggage the night before an early-morning flight. Says he: "Sometimes I end up having to carry a toothbrush, razor and shaving cream in my raincoat pocket." Holder of a master's degree in history from the University of Chicago, Fischer has covered three presidential campaigns and feels that this one is "far and away the most interesting because of the uncertainty." Despite the pace, the correspondents can agree with one veteran newsman's observation...