Word: pockets
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...camera was delighted to find the young Guinness popping into Great Expectations as the giddily genial Herbert Pocket. It embraced him, in Guinness's grand postwar decade of Ealing Studios comedies--both as that Candidean innocent, the creator of a miracle fabric in The Man in the White Suit, and as the mousy banker who nearly pulls off the legendary Eiffel Tower paperweight caper in The Lavender Hill Mob. It saw him locate the suicidal pride of the colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai. The camera may even have captured an on-the-fly self-portrait when...
...some in retrospect. Then the next morning he said he wouldn't make "any apologies for" his conservative record. When NBC's Matt Lauer asked him about his opposition to a gun-control measure that even the N.R.A. had supported, Cheney quipped, "Well, obviously I wasn't in the pocket of the N.R.A...
...resident of Prospect Street reported to CPD that while on the corner of Cambridge and Springfield, two black males approached him and punched him in the face. They then removed $10 from his pocket and took his bike...
...soap operas: Will German phone giant Deutsche Telekom finally take the plunge in the U.S. market? Ron Sommer, who heads the $200 billion company, needs a U.S. beachhead to make his former monopoly a global telecom player. And he has $100 billion for acquisitions burning a hole in his pocket...
...called my suggestion that "the most pernicious idea he had ever heard," and to me it was just common sense. That was a warning about what my tenure at the endowment was likely to turn out to be as long as I was not seen to be in the pocket of the academic world...