Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rush in on the single, unarmed blasphemer. He was dragged out of the meeting hall more dead than alive. A LIFE photographer who recorded the scene (see cut) was cornered by the angry crowd and forced to surrender his films temporarily; he managed to hide one in his trouser pocket...
...wartime hiding places. Great chunks of the student body are not sure whether Dartmouth is a "rah-rah" college or not; visitors who have watched a Big Green football rally, the freshman sophomore fight, or seniors ambling about in dark green jackets with their class numerals emblazed on the pocket are sure that...
...three-legged rat race, carried on against the background of a small-time posh hotel, a grim little cantina and a turbulent fiesta. The movie has some well-written, better-spoken tough talk, plenty of menace, and some sharp violence. A good deal of it is just routine pocket thriller. But thanks to Director Montgomery and Producer Joan Harrison there is also some good New Mexican location atmosphere...
...played softball on the corner lot with the gang, occasionally earned pocket money by sneaking onto neighboring golf courses to retrieve lost balls. He could outrun the gang-and the cops-every time. But a stern talk from Ma Robinson put him out of business. She was, and is, a fervent Methodist who can be volubly graphic on the subject of hell. (A few weeks ago, when the Dodgers were not doing so well, Jackie wrote to his ma: "Quit praying just for me alone, Ma, and pray for the whole team...
...Dare to be yourself," wrote Andre Gide in his diary at 22. "My mind is becoming voluptuously impious and pagan. I must stress that tendency." If he felt like a pagan, he still acted like a Protestant; he carried a pocket Bible everywhere with him. But he was always seesawing between the assurances of prayer and the doubts of spiritual confusion. Twenty-one years later, he confided to his journal: "Catholicism is inadmissible. Protestantism is intolerable. And I feel profoundly Christian. . . . From day to day I put off and carry a little farther into the future my prayer...