Word: pocketing
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Many islanders worried that once Britain let go altogether, Gairy would set up a miniature dictatorship with himself as a pocket Napoleon. "There could be massive bloodshed in a few days," warned Maurice Bishop, one of the opposition leaders beaten in the first attacks last year. "The population is not prepared to be ruled by any madman, and it is very clear the 'jackal'-as the populace now calls him-is simply not prepared to resign. I think he is certifiably...
...distract even the most fearful child. He pulls a string of brightly colored handkerchiefs out of an apparently empty fist, or makes his thumb disappear. Then, having coaxed a child into smiling, Brodeur rewards him; he whips red and black felt-tipped marking pens out of a pocket and draws a tiny ladybug on the patient's forearm...
...dozens of flashcards of planes and tanks, and he knows all the numbers and countries they belong to. In a back pocket, he has dozens of coat hangers twisted into spears. In his front pocket, when he is not brandishing it, is a large bunch of squashed tooth brushes, bundled up in hundreds of rubber bands into one big bomb...
...lift tonight. I heard a noise in the brush by the stone staircase and there was Francois. His pants were wet to the knees and there was a crusty line of sand up the front of his jacket. He looked frightened, but his eyes shone. He pulled from his pocket a handful of round, smooth stones from the beach. "Bombs!" he said. "I went to the beach and got bombs Le Bon Dieu will hurl these at them and kill them, and then put them in a volcano...
...strike," declared Mrs. Maggie Johnson, a miner's wife for 43 years. "They talk about mechanization-well, the foul air's still there, the dust's still there, the dank's still there. It used to be the miners put their pride in their pockets -they had to, didn't they? But there was a hole in that pocket big as your fist. They've taken their pride out of their pockets now. That's why they'll vote for a strike-because they've got to keep the union alive...