Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is by no means an inconceivable possibility, for the appropriations involved will be staggering. They will dwarf the two and a quarter billions spent on UNRRA. The Second Session of the Eightieth Congress may be more than somewhat reluctant to dig so deeply into the nation's pocket at a time when it will be mainly preoccupied with jockeying for position in the All America Sweepstakes of November...
...more than 100 years, Etonians have worn top hats to school and to military drill, sometimes stuffed with pencils and books like an extra pocket. Since 1820, Eton boys have worn black, in mourning for George III. Only boys under 5 ft. 4 in. wear Eton jackets and wide Eton collars; when they grow bigger they graduate into tail coats and narrow collars. Etonians must always leave the bottom buttons of their waistcoats unbuttoned, say "absence"' when they mean roll call, and talk a jargon that new boys study from a glossary, may not furl their umbrellas unless they...
...lost coin. She could not find it. The conductor could not find it either. Then a Polish soldier came over to help out with a match. But the match burned down before they found the coin. The soldier muttered, then fished a wad of German bills out of his pocket. He took a large, 20-mark note ($2), lit it, found the 50-pfennig piece, and with a smile handed it to the woman. The smoldering remains of his 20 marks he tossed out the door...
...Cantigny,* his 1,000-acre farm near Wheaton, Ill. Over a frugal breakfast of coffee and juice, he scans the Trib's fat, one-star final and Marshall Field's skinnier Sun, tearing out clippings. He scribbles swift notes on them and stuffs them into his pocket for delivery to his editors. For an hour he strolls Cantigny's gardens and rolling fields (now mostly idle). He has given up riding: "Can't get a groom, dammit," he complains. "There just aren't any good grooms any more...
Gall from Henry. Under this plan, the bookkeeping cost of Fontana to Kaiser would be $44 million. But his out-of-pocket cost would be only $12 million. That was all he would have left from the $44 million shipyard profit after taxes, if he could not apply the sum against Fontana...