Word: pocketing
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...precisely why we have an armed guard here on weekends and our managers carry these," said George--'I live in Cambridge, so that's all I can tell you'--the day manager at Hungry Charley's, as he flashed the tear gas cannister he carries in his shirt pocket...
...just this month, an official inquiry into cruelty at a Lancashire mental hospital described how patients were locked in closets for being "mischievous," how they were half-strangled with wet towels if they became violent, and how one victim had been injured when male nurses filled his dressing-gown pocket with alcohol and then set it afire...
When I said I didn't he told me, "It means Lao People and that is what they are, Just Lao People." He reached in his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper money used by the Pathet Lao. I had never seen one before. On it was a scene of the Plain of Jars: Lao gunners were shooting bazookas at American planes flying overhead. The remains of several shot down planes were strewn across the background...
...money back in his pocket. After a pause, he turned toward me and looked into my eyes. "I just want one thing," he said. "I wish the fighting would stop." I turned away
...officially beyond the reach of those who had sought to prevent Harvard's name from being associated with such a tawdry affair. As a "worthy cause" it can accept charity contributions and special privileges from the University, yet as a private organization its student executives can pocket thousands of dollars of monopoly profits. There is, in fact, no connection at all between a student's financial need and the amount of money he or she can make from HSA; many HSA agency heads and Presidents in recent years have not been on scholarship at all, yet have made more money...