Word: pocketing
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...triple the cost of admission. Hundreds of other enthusiasts stood in line for up to nine hours to buy tickets. For each game in the best-of-twelve series, the theater was filled with elegant ladies peering through pearled opera glasses and vested gentlemen following the play on pocket chess sets. Another 3,000 fans crowded into the lobby, where they could watch and argue each move as it was relayed from the stage to a huge demonstration board. Radio Argentina provided play-by-play coverage, and an international team of reporters filed stories to an estimated 60 million chess...
...Crimson line failed to provide Stoeckel with a pocket all afternoon. The Tiger defense dropped the Crimson quarterback seven times for a total of 50 yards in losses...
...almost all the friends and legendary figures who made the "heroic" years of the French avant-garde and constituted the tribunal against which Picasso could measure himself-are dead. "When I see you," he recently told one friend, Photographer Georges Brassai, "my first reaction is to reach in my pocket for a package of cigarettes to offer you one, like the old days. I know very well that we don't smoke any more. Age has obliged us to renounce them, but the desire remains! Same thing for making love. One doesn't do it any more...
...select the slowest line at the bank, finds himself behind Siamese twins: "One of them is putting eighty-two dollars in his savings account anc the other one is closing his savings account. The teller counts out 3,574 dollars for him and he puts it away in the pocket on his side of the pants...
...knows that "people can manage on very little": his profession makes him operate on the very boundaries of life, and makes him further aware of his own limitations. He is melancholy, but he is not resigned to entropy: he helps his patients as best he can, and creates a pocket of personal substance, which sustains him even when Elkin leaves. Alex, not as self-possessed, is in a more painful position. Without channels for her intelligence, and without guidance from tradition, she relies on her better feelings, which do not help, but seize her. (When a young girl races across...