Word: pick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only took 20 minutes to pick the jury for the trial of the first defendant, a 22-year-old tenant farmer named William ("Spud") Howell. Then Amy was put on the stand. She told how she and Big Duck and their baby and two cousins were on their way home in their car at night and how a gang of men "with white stuff on them" and "pistol guns" had stopped their car, and shot Robert Mallard dead...
...Philosophical Pope. Whatever themes he might pick, Spaniards would remember what it was like to have Ortega around. He had been a proud and fastidious figure, quoted and copied everywhere. When he lectured at the University of Madrid, students jammed his classes. He was called "the philosophical Pope of Spain"; and when he went to his favorite coffeehouse, it was with a crowd of disciples tagging behind. There, perched on the edge of his chair, he would hold forth each night, spinning phrases like sparks from a pinwheel, sometimes until the sun came...
Both teams were hampered by meticulous officiating which saw the Tigers pick up four points on pickoff rulings in the first three minutes of play. John Rockwell, George Sella, and Adams fouled out midway in the second half, and all had to operate carefully prior to ejection. HARVARD (46) g f pts Rockwell, lf 4 2 10 Gabler 2 0 4 Petrillo, rf 2 3 7 Bramhall 0 0 0 Prior, c 0 2 2 Smith 5 3 13 Gannon, lg 0 0 0 McCurdy 2 1 5 Davis 2 1 5 Covey, rg 0 0 0 Totals...
Chambers' principal source in the State Department would take the documents home in a briefcase. Chambers would call on him, pick up the documents, have them rushed to Baltimore to be microfilmed, then return the originals to the official the same night. By the time the documents were back in department files next morning, Chambers would be in New York, opening up his tobacco pouch from which he drew his microfilm copies to deliver to Colonel Boris Bykov, the chief Soviet military intelligence agent...
...when the sea changes its hue and forecasts winter . . . snow." And the silk-hatted Wall Street Journal stuck a straw in its teeth and complained against the "tenderometer," a newfangled "diabolical machine [that] actually proposes to tell a man when his Baldwins . . . and Northern Spies are ripe enough to pick...