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pocketful
noun
The quantity that a pocket would typically hold.
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This resource from WordSpace uses a "bag of stories" (a bag containing a few everyday items) for inspiration, while this lesson uses an old coat with a few items in its pockets to produce a "pocketful of stories".
Salutary lesson: Wherever you go in this world, take your own tree, a pocketful of fertiliser and a copy of Jethro Tull's 1731 book Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, or an Essay on the Principles of Vegetation and Tillage.
He brought back news of some Japanese citizens who had been kidnapped over the years by North Korean agents, and he won a pocketful of promises (see article).
When students leave Harvard, they carry grades as a sort of currency: a pocketful of intellectual capital, to bid for jobs or places in graduate schools against graduates from other universities with other currencies.
For the Delta's legions of jobless youths, joining a militia such as Mr Asari's can provide both a pocketful of cash and a sense of purpose.President Obasanjo has tried to defuse matters.
He is now seen as indecisive and a poor administrator, using his "pocketful of mobile telephones" to deal with endless petitioners rather than running a proper government.
By abandoning this process halfway through, he warns, there is a risk that Thailand will fail to establish a system in which borrowers pay their debts.In this section Man overboard Debating the minimum wage Steal industry Adopt brace position A pocketful of posies Still hurting Coming out of denial Fruit suit Three into one will go Taking one's Easdaq ReprintsYet Mr Thaksin seems hell-bent.
He later appeared on Broadway in Neil Simon's Prisoner of Second Avenue (1971, Tony Award) and in such films as Murder Inc. (1960) and Pocketful of Miracles (1961); he was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor for both those films.
Some of Ford's most notable film performances were in Gilda (1946), The Big Heat (1953), Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956), The Sheepman (1958), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), for which he won a Golden Globe Award as best actor, and The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), which spawned a television series of the same name.
Capra, who was also nominated as best director, would refashion the material less successfully in 1961 as Pocketful of Miracles.
Capra's final two films were A Hole in the Head (1959), in which Frank Sinatra starred as hotelier whose irresponsibility nearly costs him custody of his son, and Pocketful of Miracles (1961), a musical remake of Lady for a Day with Bette Davis, which failed to earn back its cost.
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