Word: pocketing
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...temper--the man pounding furiously on the expressionless subway door with his prey smug inside, and his brash lack of cool was supposed to make things more subtle. But it never really worked. When anti-heroin crusader Doyle busts a bellboy for a joint in his back pocket the filmmakers are testing the audience's sympathies too much. And all was subservient to the immortal Chase...
...hour period, eleven persons were killed in Atlanta, six by gunfire. In Detroit Beach, Mich., a woman watching her four-year-old grandson at play saw him stabbed to death by a teenage boy who was apparently after the 40¢ that the child had in his pocket. In New York City this spring, police charged a gang of six teen-agers?one of whom was 13?with murdering three elderly and penniless men by asphyxiation. One man died with his prayer shawl stuffed into his mouth...
...member Coalition of Concerned Women in the War on Crime has launched Operation Whistlestop. When they spot trouble, residents of certain high-crime areas rush to the scene, blowing their whistles. In lower Manhattan, some 135 residents of the East Third Street Block Association are being given a pocket device to carry on the street. When activated, it will set off a loud alarm attached to a nearby building, alerting neighbors to call the police...
...best. He is also a master woofer. "This is a golf course where a poor man can come and get wealthy," says one foe, trying to set up Fat Daddy for a fall. "Boy, you keep messing around with me," says Cofield, "and I'll make your pocket bigger than a rat hole...
...compound this regressive aspect of his policy, Kissinger has made a conscious effort, seemingly successful, to establish a cult of personality intertwined with the negotiations. Both sides feel, at this point, that Kissinger is indispensible to the talks. In essence, all the keys are in his pocket; neither Arab nor Israeli has had anything but dealings with Henry Kissinger since the end of the October War. In the end, his effort to be the mortal who moves mountains can only lead to continued strife. By now, twenty-seven years after the first Arab-Israeli war, the warring parties should...