Word: walleted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Second Wallet. It was a debatable judgment. Coram's deception was certainly no more flagrant than that of hundreds of other reporters who misrepresent themselves to get their stories. "Any good police reporter," says a Chicago city editor, "will get a story out of a policeman by posing as one of his ultimate superiors-a guy who is too highly placed for the patrolman to know whether he is talking to the deputy superintendent or not. It is not something the city desk can condone, exactly. But you don't ask how they got the story, either...
...ruse is part of every reporter's equipment," agrees Melvin Mencher, an associate professor of investigative reporting at the Columbia School of Journalism. Mencher, a former United Press reporter, says he always carried a second wallet when working on a story. The wallet contained a social security card and credit cards to prove whatever identity he had chosen. He advises his students to assume false identities when necessary, if for no other reason than to "become a part of what you want to write about...
...nanny goat" goes the Harlem nursery rhyme.) I start to go off the campus but then remember to turn and walk two blocks uptown to get to the only open gate. There I squeeze through the three-foot "out" opening in the police barricade, and I feel for my wallet to be sure I've got the two I.D.'s necessary to get back into my college. I stare at the cops. They stare back and see a red armband and long hair and they perhaps tap their nightsticks on the barricade. They're looking at a radical leftist...
Three youths mugged a Nieman Fellow who was returning to his home on Harvard Street late Thursday night, and made off with his wallet and wristwatch...
...previous flood, he climbed to the roof with a few chickens and subsisted by biting their heads off and drinking their blood. Who will drink whose blood before this latest flood? Chicken is furious at losing the property to Lot's wife, and he has in his wallet a previously signed agreement willing it to him. Lot assigns Myrtle the task of getting that piece of paper and destroying...