Word: pick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barney Samuel, a city payroller since 1903, tolerated bookmaking even at City Hall. He charged that City Hall workers and some merchants are annually dunned to buy the mayor a birthday present-e.g., a station wagon and a motorboat. Under Samuel, said Dilworth, a police inspector could easily pick up $30,000 a year in graft-and some inspectors were doing it. As for solving the city's acute sewage, parking, paving, housing and airport problems, the mayor has not even come close...
Harry Truman, whose Gallup poll rating had dropped from 60% last spring to 54% in July, was up to 55%. His Party was doing even better. If a presidential election were held now, Dr. Gallup's pollsters found, 56% of the voters would pick the Democratic ticket...
...first place, a defensive end at the line of scrimmage, always kept him out of the flat and started him off down the middle. After that, most, clubs had two defensive halfbacks ready to pick Hutson up, depending on whether he cut right or left. At this point in the conversation, Bob cast his eyes to the floor and revealed that the Bears let him pick up Hutson alone after some ether defender had already guided the end down the middle, and that in this respect he might be considered as having guarded Hutson alone...
...major Communist drive in Western Germany in a few weeks. Britain and the U.S. are about to publish a list of more than 800 factories to be dismantled for reparations. In their zone the Russians dismantled two years ago, before the Germans had a chance to pick themselves up and dust themselves off. Today there are German political parties, unions and newspapers which can express the almost unanimous German opposition to dismantling...
Ever since the talks on Britain's dollar crisis last summer, it had been obvious that the U.S. would eventually have to pick up the check for the cost of victory over Germany. Last week in Washington, ten flight-weary British experts told the U.S. that the time had come. The U.S. would now have to put up at least 80% of the $700-800 million annual bill for feeding and rebuilding the combined occupation zones...