Word: pick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would play ball again. He sat up in bed and tolerantly described Ruth as a "Baseball Annie," one of an army of hero-worshiping teen-age girls who follow players around. He was kind of puzzled, though: "I don't know what got into that silly honey. Why pick on a nice guy like me?" After a second operation he learned that Ruth wasn't taking things too hard and lost his temper: "She seems to think this is a joke, but I don't. She should be taken off the streets-the same...
Captain Wally Coulson was off for New London last night in his yawl "Kanige." He sailed at eight p.m. with his father and mother, delaying only long enough to pick up the Wendell bat for the year's best work at the plate...
...Half-Century: F.D.R., Churchill, MacArthur, Stalin, Hitler. Take your pick. I pick Churchill...
...Canada's tenth province 2½^ months ago, U.S. airlines feared that things would be changed at Newfoundland's Gander airport. There, under the "Bermuda Agreement" with Great Britain (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946), the airlines had been able to: 1) refuel for their transatlantic flights, and 2) pick up and discharge passengers (traffic rights). The agreement ended when Newfoundland joined the Dominion, since Canada had never granted traffic privileges to U.S. lines. Thus she had a strong card to play for more air rights from...
Local savants are indulging in their annual June custom of trying to pick the man who will cop Honorary Degrees in the Commencement stakes...