Word: pick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Looking a little old, with heavy pouches under his eyes, 58-year-old Walter Lippmann-author of 19 books, New York Herald Tribune columnist since 1931-sat down to put together his thesis, which he called The Cold War. Two secretaries hovered beside him. Western Union stood by to pick up his copy daily at 1 o'clock and transmit it to New York, while Mr. Lippmann, in red silk Chinese trousers and a grey-&-black silk shirt, sat at his antique desk and wrote. By this week, enough of his columns had appeared to indicate the trend...
...mitt and sent out to sink or swim at a new position -first base. Being right-handed was no help: first base is a left-hander's position. It is easier for a left-hander to throw from first to any other base, and easier to pick a man off the bag. Only a few great first basemen (among them the Cubs' Frank Chance and the Giant's George Kelly) were righthanded. But Robinson, with a tricky "scissors" pivot, manages to get rid of the ball as quickly as any southpaw first baseman in the league...
Miss Robertson, in charge of the playground, found, like others before her, that the children got far more affection than those of small upper-class families. But it was casual affection; at the end of hot summer days-so Miss Robertson was told-the police could always pick up a score or so of babies left behind on Dublin Bay strand...
...House, Leverett, the 20 newly-created vacancies have been arbitrarily selected, but the residents of those rooms will be allowed to pick the particular man they want to move in. Leverett's situation is such, it was explained, that the House's construction dictated where the new men will...
Thus dampened, contracts in the first two days totaled only $350,000, far less than expected. But SCAP expected that business would pick...