Word: handpick
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...view of the limited enrollement, Samborski plans to pool all House intra material and then split the competitors up into squads. From the baseball league, he will handpick an "all-star" nine, which will compete as the informal Varsity against whatever local competition is available...
Ironic angle: the money which George Berry wanted, Tom Stewart did not want. By accepting it he would accept Senatorhood before his term as Attorney-General expires, which would give Tennessee's Governor Browning (his and Boss Ed Crump's enemy) a chance to handpick an interim Attorney-General...
...District Attorney Warren L. Bishop, whom they accuse of backsliding, drafted Republican Bob Bradford to run against him in the primaries September 20. In the 9th Congressional District (Boston's western outskirts, including Cambridge, Brookline, Newton, Wellesley), the New Deal has given its blessing, although it did not handpick him, to independent Democrat Tom Eliot...