Word: walletful
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...youths slugged and robbed a Winthrop House junior behind the Eliot House squash courts early Wednesday night. They took $6 from his wallet and left him with a bruised neck, a black-and-blue left eye, and a cracked...
Zuch, who remembers only faintly what happened after the blow, thinks the other youth smashed his neck with "something hard." The junior sank to his knees as the two took the money from his wallet...
...that. When Douglas realizes that his precious plumbing has actually been shipped in such a boat, he rushes to the rescue with a full panoply of American Efficiency: chartered planes, long-distance calls, press conferences, do-it-yourself. He is met by Scots Canniness: the wandering eye, the mislaid wallet, the pensive loiter, the unprevented calamity...
...aged thrill killer of 1945 was Lena Theresa Nienstedt, a whisky-drinking factory girl of 16. She carried a small hatchet in her handbag because, she said, "some guys get fresh." After a few drinks one evening, she used the hatchet on a 71-year-old tailor, picked his wallet and went home. "I felt easy and happy and calm." she said later. "Then I remembered I had left my hatchet in the shop. I dressed and went back . . . He was still gurgling. I hit him on the head some more until he was quiet...
Albatross. In Manitowoc, Wis., three years after losing his wallet, George Massman got it back, along with $30 and a note: "I have picked many pockets and I have kept the wallets for souvenirs, but ever since I picked yours I have been having bad luck...