Word: pickpocket
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...Pickpocket. At the Harvard-Epworth Church, Sunday at 7:30. With In the Street...
...stories strive not to dictate that response but to duplicate it. Rather than stepping smartly from A to Z, his plots tend to pick up casually with N and then meander back around to M. The apparent informality is a ruse. McPhee consistently works like a reverse pickpocket, slipping facts deftly and painlessly into the folds of his narrative: "There are nearly twice as many people in the District of Columbia as there are in the State of Alaska. In ten square miles of the eastern state I live in [New Jersey] are more people than there...
...luxury appealed to her and money used to preoccupy her greatly. Going out with young men in Shanghai, she insisted on paying her own way; when she was broke, she would insist: "This time you pay, but next time I pay." Once, on the way to a movie, a pickpocket stole her money. Rather than admit this to her escort, she fled and later took out a small loan at a bank; she was "ashamed to report," notes Witke, that she never repaid...
...With Pickpocket...
...many revelers, the huge police presence, complete with helicopter chuffing overhead, was an irritation. But many police, too, seemed irritated at having to spend their holidays in crowd control, and they began officiously ordering people around. So when a scuffle broke out between police and a suspected pickpocket, fighting quickly spread. Young blacks bom barded the police with rocks, bottles and beer cans. The police seized garbage-can lids for protection, then counterattacked with nightsticks. When it was over, some 400 were injured-325 of them police. It was the worst such conflict in nearly two decades...