Word: pocketful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stood casually with one hand in a pocket, spoke in an offhand manner: "Mr. President, it is my task today to commence the debate on the foreign assistance bill of 1963." Although long one of the Senate's foremost advocates of foreign aid, Fulbright demonstrated that this time he really did find his task painful. "I tend to share the view of many members of this body," he said, "that at least portions of the foreign aid program are obsolescent." He urged the Kennedy Administration "not to delay...
...into the jungle. But most of Mexico's ancient art is less monumental and more familiar: everyday household utensils and ritual objects decorated with leaves and tendrils; pots, statuary, and tools in the shape of animals; terra-cotta fertility idols whose swollen thighs and exaggerated pubic regions are pocket guarantees of good crops. Perhaps the highest point of pre-conquest art-and the most exciting part of the Los Angeles show-was the painted room of the temple at Bonampak, a pyramid whose corbel vaults-arches made by stepping stones inward-display 8th century Mayan frescoes strangely linked...
...middle of the picket line stands a blond, moppy haired Harvard preppy-identified to Wellesley girls by silverware in the jacket pocket and tie askew...
...have been done in, Miss Marple swings her cloak 'round her shoulder like a Caesar crossed and announces imperiously, "I shall have to investigate this myself!") and does not retrieve it until the last bit of evidence--symbolized by the plaster of paris mold she carries in her pocket--has fallen into place...
...vicuna suits crowd $450. If he had his druthers, he would sculpt all his fabled clients into what he calls the Sy Devore All-American Look. Jackets, cut a good inch and a half shorter than the average, have square shoulders and single buttons. There is no handkerchief pocket-Sy hates bulges. Trousers have frontier pockets (like dungarees), no hip pockets, no cuffs, no belt (or a half belt in cloth), and are three inches trimmer than a standard size at the knee. Sy recommends leather boots to go with all this. The overall impression is a kind of subdued...