Word: picked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously, reasoned the Queens, the government was really trying to eliminate competition against government beer. Determined to protect their pin money, 300 women, some with babies on their backs and all armed with sticks or pick handles, stormed the Cato Manor beer hall. They snatched glasses out of the men's hands, smashed barrels, poured hundreds of gallons of government beer on the ground. When the police arrived, they set after the cops with sticks and stones...
...their battling over steel negotiations, both management and labor naturally pick the figures that best prove their case. Determined to hold fast against any wage hike, industry points out that the steelworkers' average hourly wage of $3.08 is higher than in all but a handful of U.S. industries (coal, glass, construction). According to industry statistics, postwar wage costs have risen nearly twice as fast as the cost of living. Replies the union: average earnings do not mean anything, because the majority of steelworkers have to work at incentive pace and on undesirable shifts and normal off-days to achieve...
...find you choking up. Judy Holliday has a lot of that. And Shirley Booth's voice has some of it. But if I had a choice of a performance I'd want my mother to see-if she could come back for 80 minutes-I'd pick Shirley's in Some Came Running...
...sharp employment push was also helped by the fact that new plant and equipment expenditures, another area of economic lag during the recovery, are starting to pick up. First-quarter spending was at the rate of only $30.6 billion, but the second-and third-quarter forecast is for a rate of $32.3 billion and $33.4 billion, both well above last year's $30.5 billion...
Parental Clay. In the France of 1908 -such a well-tended garden that it was almost a crime for a child to pick a flower -the De Beauvoirs tried to maintain rather than seek status. A soso lawyer. Papa was worldly, intelligent and a gifted amateur actor. Convent-bred Mama was pious, temperamentally capricious, and terribly afraid of making a social gaffe. When the couple engaged in loud-voiced wrangles, little Simone was bitterly disillusioned; parents were not gods, but common clay. At eight, the embryo novelist wrote a woefully sentimental saga about The Misfortunes of Marguerite...