Word: pocketing
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...shortly before 7:40 p.m. and reached back inside to pick up his overcoat and briefcase, two black youths slipped up beside him. They demanded his money, grabbed his wallet (containing credit cards and an undetermined amount of cash), his Phi Beta Kappa key from Mississippi State, his gold pocket watch and his only coin, a quarter. Although he apparently did not resist, one of the thugs then struck him, and the other said something like, "Now we're going to shoot you anyway." Stennis fell from two shots, and the attackers fled. Despite his wounds, Stennis lurched...
...sweating Vietnamese marine lieutenant jumped out. The marines chattered excitedly. The lieutenant listened impassively. The prisoner waited. I stood directly beside him, but I never saw the lieutenant's gun. A pistol shot cracked, the prisoner sagged and fell, breath rattling, a tiny hole in his shirt pocket. Holstering his .45, the lieutenant began to explain -in good English-that the fallen Ranger had pitched a grenade at his marines. He deserved to die. The prisoner lay on the ground amidst the debris of battle-spent brass, empty ration cans, cabbage leaves, broken glass. He was still alive...
Then Nixon took his case directly to the people. In a radio speech Sunday, he called the budget "one of the most important documents I will sign as President" and asserted that "it is time to get big Government off your back and out of your pocket." In the budget message, he proclaimed "total determination to identify and reform or eliminate programs that have not worked." For good measure, lest any Congressman forget how many votes Nixon won last November, he added that "the expressed will of the people will not be denied...
...dinner, the German Chancellor nearly forgot to wear the lapel button of his brand new Grand Cross of the Legion d'honneur, then suffered a brief moment of panic when he discovered his dinner jacket had no buttonhole. The situation was saved by the deft thrust of a pocket knife...
...demonstration of Johnson's severe heart disease and his characteristic determination not to yield to it. "It was almost the greatest pain you ever saw," he said later about the crushing pressure on his chest (angina pectoris). By sleight of hand he had transferred a nitroglycerin tablet from pocket to mouth and slipped it under his tongue. This gave immediate relief from pain...