Word: pocketing
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Well, USU hasn't gone very far into the new season and its front wall is already showing signs of crumbling. The protective pocket that insulated the USU signal caller so effectively from the opposition in the past is being overrun, and Whittier, accustomed to sitting back in the cup of insulation thrown up by his underlings, is being blitzed to death. With the protection broken down, the U.S. leader is being forced out of the pocket, and he is scrambling like mad to avoid being cornered...
Internal dissension seems to be on a definite upswing among the USU ranks. And on the field the situation gets worse and worse. Now that his pocket has broken down, Whittier is being harried more intensely than ever. And he is scrambling for his life. A setback like this could not only scuttle the season, but it could ruin his career as well. With each new play, the ends and tackles close in a little more on the U.S. Quarterback. And it seems only a matter of time before he will be sacked behind his own line...
...what the stakes, he keeps up an amiable chatter with other players. "Some of these guys play the games real uptight," he says; "it's so quiet you could hear an ant pee on cotton. But Ah like to shake 'em up, put a rattlesnake in their pocket and ask 'em for a match...
...such treatment of a picture of the man she chose over seventeen more promising gentlemen callers. Ken Bartels saunters into the Wingfields' home as Jim, the man who comes to dinner as Laura's first gentleman caller and the focus of all Amanda's hopes for her child. His pocket full of gum wrappers, Bartels's Jim is appropriately more whimsical, but just as ebullient as the high school hero Laura remembers...
Hedi had spent all day rehearsing him on the fine points of an English tea. Except, that is, for the sugar tongs: Solti squeezed them too tightly, and his sugar cube popped into the breast pocket of Covent Garden's administrator, the late Sir David Webster...