Word: pocketing
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...backsides of the row of people in front of me who gave Tony C. a standing ovation. Three had checkered underwear, one spilled popcorn on me when she went to clap and forgot that her left hand was occupied, and one had his back pocket picked by an usher...
Kissinger, in spite of his recent failure, would still like to continue pursuing the gradual method, since it keeps all the keys in his pocket. The resumption of the Geneva talks, which appear to be the next step, make the Soviet Union a central factor in any settlement. So, as Sadat threatens Kissinger with a new alliance with the Soviets, via the opening of the canal, Kissinger attempts to shift the blame for the failure of the Sinai talks on the Israelis, even though the sacrifices asked of them were beyond reason...
...midst of his appassionato performance. While blood splattered his white shirt, the wounded conductor went right on directing the 150-member chorus and brass-percussion ensemble in Mexican Composer Rodolfo Halffter's Proclamation for a Poor Easter. "I managed to get a handkerchief out of my pocket during a brief pause in the music," said Serebrier. "I stuffed it into my hand and made a fist and continued that way for another 20 minutes until the finale." After tetanus shots and a night's rest, he promised to fulfill the rest of his engagements, "but without a baton...
...guides," but a few members of Britain's House of Commons have been less complimentary about The M.P. 's Chart. The 83-page booklet is a collection of irreverent thumbnail descriptions of British politicians written by Manchester Evening News Correspondent Andrew Roth. In Roth's updated pocket guide, Andrew Faulds, a Labor M.P. and former actor, is dismissed as "tall, bearded, rude, sextrovert." Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher rates a more splendid oxymoron: "blonde, stainless-steel Dresden china." Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe is characterized as a "middlebrow, U.S.-style show-biz politician." Because almost a quarter...
Onassis was not to the villa born. The son of a Greek tobacco merchant, he grew up in the Turkish city of Smyrna. At age 17 he left his family, who by then had fled to Greece, and traveled by steerage to Argentina with less than $60 in his pocket. By the time he was 23, he had parlayed his earnings from odd jobs (such as dishwashing and working as a telephone lineman) into a million-dollar business that included cigarette manufacturing, dealing in rugs, hides and furs, and operating a decrepit tramp freighter. His formula: 20-hour work days...