Word: pocketing
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...Pocket. Vesco was also named in the 46-page indictment, which charged the defendants with conspiracy, obstructing justice and perjury, but he is a fugitive living in Costa Rica. The fourth man named was Sears himself, but he has been granted full immunity in return for testifying as a witness for the prosecution...
...Israel, the fate of the prisoners is an intensely emotional national issue. As a result, Kissinger's arrival from Damascus with the P.O.W. list in his pocket produced the warmest welcome he has ever received in Israel. Kissinger had previously informed the Israelis that the list contained fewer names than the 102 soldiers that Israel had listed as missing. To reduce the shock and bitterness, Premier Golda Meir's government abruptly changed its list of missing to 80 names. The Syrians, however, listed only 62 soldiers, which meant that 18 of the 80 were still unaccounted for; their...
...ruination of the Old West was the advent of good women, who shuttered the bordellos, sent the highrollers packing, and imported pianos and preachers in a wistful attempt to transform mining camps into mini-Philadelphias. Baby Doe was not one of them. A pocket Venus from Oshkosh and no better than she should be, blonde, blue-eyed Elizabeth McCourt Doe had shed a feckless husband and arrived in Leadville - Colorado's Magic Mountain - almost at the moment in 1880 when the played-out gold fields turned out to be mere icing on the world's richest slice...
...alternative to this needless American madness emerged last August in the form of a legitimate and remarkably inexpensive air travel club called Freelandia. Started from the personal pocket of a longhaired ex-Wall Street millionaire, the California-based club donates its profits to charity, serves organic foods, offers bargain-priced crosscountry and trans-Atlantic flights, and promises a safe landing...
Eliot House students just shook their heads in disbelief at brunch Sunday morning. No, this time it wasn't the corned beef hash, looking as worn out as the pocket of my ten-year-old baseball glove, that shocked everyone. Yale had beaten the hockey team. Yale, the school that had to be beaten to avenge the November football massacre. Yale, the team that had lost seven in a row. Impossible. It didn't happen to Cleary's invincible crusaders that had not lost since exams...