Word: pick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next 30 years Weizmann fought the British policy, in love and in anger. Ousted as president of the Zionist Congress in 1931 for his "pro-British" methods, he returned, by invitation, to pick up the cudgels again in 1935. "Jews are not going to Palestine," he cried to the Colonial Office, "to become in their ancient home 'Arabs of the Mosaic faith.' " To his old friend, Ormsby-Gore (the Colonial Secretary), he wrote that the Zionist policy of cooperation with Britain in Palestine had remained unilateral-"it was unrequited love." In 1939 the love affair came...
...placed over the test paper which covers all spaces except those where correct answers are supposed to be marked. Both the test paper and the stencil are then placed in a slot up against a panel of thick copper pins. When the machine is turned on, the pins pick up all pencil marks that show through the spaces in the stencil, because pencil marks made with special pencils, conduct electricity. The rest is simple. The machine just "counts" the number of electrical impulses and then stamps it on the exam paper...
...Fibber Elliott kept his eye on Mrs. Lee and wondered what to do next. True to her campaign promises, the new mayor cleaned out Portland's basketball and hockey-betting hangouts, had her cops round up prostitutes, close Chinese gambling dives. She even sent her police out to pick up all the slot machines, including those in such private hangouts as the Portland Press Club, which made $50,000 profit on them last year...
After the war was over, Bishop Wurm, at 76, was elected chairman of the council of the provisional Evangelical Church in Germany. The task before him was to pick up the pieces that Hitler had scattered when he forced the break-up of Germany's Protestant federation in 1933. Into this task, Bishop Wurm threw all his talent for diplomatic maneuvering; he wrote letters and traveled from church to church to reconcile varying viewpoints. Finally, at a meeting in Eisenach last July, the aging bishop's labors were rewarded: the church delegates unanimously adopted the constitution...
...Chevrolet and Pontiac, General Motors Corp. had spent a million dollars. The world's biggest automaker had bundled threescore U.S. automotive editors (and plenty of potables) aboard its Astra Domed, diesel-drawn "Train of Tomorrow," for a free ride from Detroit to New York. It would pick up the tab for a three-day whirl of luncheons, receptions and banquets for 5,000 people. All over the U.S., G.M. dealers were also cutting capers; Omaha Chevrolet dealers sent a flagpole sitter aloft for nine days (at $100 a day) to whomp up interest in the unveiling of new models...