Word: pouching
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Others go by pouch on the backs of Naga tribesmen to U.S. soldiers at listening posts close to the Jap lines-posts set up to give a few minutes' warning when Jap bombers start coming over...
McGonegal's one bother was what to do about a diamond ring he wore on his left hand. If he got killed, it should go back to his family. It had been his meal ticket on critical fiscal occasions. McGonegal made a small leather pouch, sewed the ring in it and hung it around his neck against his dog tags. Then he felt better...
...doctors gave him the leather pouch with the diamond ring...
...document came to the U.S. State Department in a diplomatic pouch from Vatican City, was soon in the hands of the Office of War Information. With OWI as its pressagent, it got wide and prompt newspaper coverage, was also assured of European circulation as a piece of first-rate propaganda against the Nazis...
From Gertrude Stein, doggedly pursuing her own literary life in France, came a manuscript, Mrs. Reynolds, to Manhattan Publisher Bennett Cerf. She had mailed it to a friend in Sweden, who got it to the U.S. by mysterious means-perhaps by diplomatic pouch, hinted Cerf, to spare suspicious censors the task of trying to decode it. The publisher said .he looked at the manuscript, could make nothing of it, thought it could probably be read from either end, decided to publish...