Word: wallet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lottery run by a film company. Gabriele wrote his name and address on the postcard and mailed it off to Rome-but without the stamp. A few days later, while he was on holiday at the coastal town of Recco, a pickpocket got Gabriele's wallet, containing some $24 and ticket...
...from the disastrous Palestine war, he said: "Young man, you've been seen going into their headquarters. You've been giving the Brotherhood military training. Come clean with me." The soft-spoken major denied the accusations, though, as he later admitted, "I had a paper in my wallet which would have proven my guilt." At the first chance, the young officer excused himself, went to the toilet, flushed the paper away, and returned. Unable to prove anything against the major, Hady told him, "You're a young fool," but he finally...
...Down. In Philadelphia, Merchant Seaman Harold L. Walsh, telling police how two strong-arm men had held him up, taken his $30 wristwatch but had missed $65 in his wallet, summed up indignantly: "I've been robbed in all the biggest ports . . . [I've] always been cleaned out, never left with a cent. These guys, they miss 65 bucks . . . Your boys are slipping...
...waist-high and squalling, grimy fists tugging at his sleeve. "Hey, sah-jint, you want buy? You want num-bah-one shoeshine? You want change-ee money, sah-jint? You want nice girl, maybe? Hey, sah-jint, you want numbahone nice virgin girl?" Sometimes they snatched a pen or wallet from his pocket and scampered off down an ill-smelling alley. Sometimes the crippled ones, scabrous and foul with dirt, hunched themselves into his path and clawed frantically at his trouser leg. "Money, skoshi money, little money! Three days, eat have-a-no, sah-jint...
...walked through the muddy, stinking, raucous market areas, holding his hand on his wallet, buying cheap souvenirs. There were fur caps and fur-lined boots, little carved figures, thousands of leather holsters and wallets, brass ashtrays and gaudy silk antimacassars, embroidered with the word "Korea," and the year. Behind the main streets, in the narrow alleys, he could purchase-with "no sweat"-scarce Army supplies, like light bulbs and radio batteries. There were piles of leather jackets from U.S. mail-order houses, gleaming rows of cheap watches smuggled in from Japan, gay shelves of Japanese cosmetics, even stacks...