Word: pick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pick of the ponies?and the crowd of crowds?will be at New York's Belmont Park. There some 75,000 racing fans will bet some $5,000,000 and see renewals of two choice stakes: the Coaching Club American Oaks for three-year-old fillies and the Suburban Handicap for older horses, both $50,000-added attractions. Topping the Oaks field is Calumet Farm's Wistful. Topping the Suburban entries?by such a wide margin that he was all but "weighted out of the race" this week?was Calumet's great Coaltown, co-holder of two world's records...
Both parties argued over the workers' service for three months more. Late in January, 1949, after some agreement had been reached. Ruthven announced the new list of teachers. The union protested that it had not been consulted: Ruthven said he reserved the right to pick instructors...
...week's end, Barkley discovered that he had added a new word to the language. "Darned if it hasn't gone all over the country now," he said. "Every time I pick up a paper I find I'm 'The Veep...
...Vote 'Ja,' indeed," scoffed Depper, a ruddy, sandy-haired carpenter. "They pick a slate of their stooges and then ask you to vote yes so they can claim the stooges are democratically elected. The last time we had the choice between 'Ja' and 'Nein,' it was forced upon us by another great democrat named Adolf Hitler. Do they think we are crazy...
...change their frequencies suddenly and often, instructing the Russian listeners to "search all short-wave bands." This keeps the jammers on the jump. It takes them about twelve seconds on the average to find and jam a dodging program. In the unjammed interval, an alert Russian listener may sometimes pick up a tidbit of news...