Word: pick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While he spoke, the rattle of gunfire echoed through the auditorium. Outside, a handful of Lebanese Communists had picked a fight with the police. They were driven off, but when the session was over the police were not satisfied. Lebanese Communist Mustafa Aris was in the hall as an accredited observer for the World Federation of Trade Unions, and the irate police decided to pick him up and toss him in jail, diplomatic immunity or no. UNESCO's secretariat promptly protested, and while Mustafa languished in stir, the understanding Lebanese government promised that in future, before a UNESCO delegate...
Both "Joe" and Max Keezer stand ready to absorb miscellanies so that the back-against-the-wall undergraduate may find enough money to take care of all those relatives. And the careful pick and choose, once-in-a-lifetime shopper might find a choice bric or brac if he investigates carefully...
Because of the song, Adelita has come to symbolize all the sturdy women of the revolution-such scowling Amazons as Colonel Juanita, who commanded a regiment of Zapata's best cavalry; the handsome, .45-toting blondes of the Café Viena in Guadalajara, who could pick out a tune by firing at piano keys; the thousands of soldaderas who followed their men into battle, gave birth in boxcars, somehow managed also to produce three meals...
...come Captain Chip Gannon is not listed? "Chip has only been out for three days," Barclay explained, "and he hasn't had a chance to pick up some of the changes in our system. Also, it may take a little for him to make the shift from football to basketball...
...speaks varsity coach John chase in characterizing Crimson prospects for the winter's hockey season. "We're deeper and faster than we've been in years," says Chase, "but just as strong are BU, BC, Northeastern, Dartmouth, and Brown, to mention only a few. I wouldn't want to pick winners in any of those games...