Word: walletful
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...port of Naples. A ragged urchin tugged and chanted at him: "You wanna girl, mister? I gotta my sister for you. Come on, Joe! Cheap!" the sailor pulled away, then slumped drunkenly to the sidewalk. Mouse-quick, the eight-year-old tried to grab the sailor's wallet, but the sailor weakly pushed him away. Unable to roll the man, the urchin sped away to sell him: in Naples bigger urchins pay 500 lire, perhaps 1,000 lire, for news of a likely victim to beat...
...some form of kissing game-a most natural expression for Twelve." But while some of the girls are already thinking about marriage, some boys are determined to remain bachelors forever. The boys develop an apparently irresistible desire to tease a girl. "Soon they are snatching a girl's wallet or pencil box and are off to hide...
Pickup. In Milwaukee, after a minor collision, Clarence Gill got out of his car, took out his wallet as he started to note down the other car's license number, stood dumbfounded when the other driver snatched his wallet, drove...
...compiling FITs. i.e., "Foreign Independent Tours." For travelers who want to be free of details, supervision and money worries-which is FITs-the company handles an average of 1,100 trips a month. The customer can theoretically leave his money belt behind, once the company hands him his blue wallet stuffed with prepaid coupons for every service he will need, down to the last cab, gondola ride, sales tax and tip. With each book of FIT coupons comes a neatly typed, individual itinerary that plots each move and ticks off every landmark, e.g., the Leaning Tower of Pisa...
...well-wishers nearly knocked him down, a squad of police linked arms with some of the welcomers in a weaving, living wall to move him and his party to shelter. "My God!" exclaimed Gainza Paz happily at the height of the crush (which somehow cost him a lost wallet). "This is worse than when Perón was in charge...