Word: picked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than which there was no meaner Martini mixer. Experience becomes instinct, and criticism is much easier than it looks: reject stories written by those who are not your friends, particularly unwashed people; accept stories containing delectable bons mots in foreign languages, the more exotic the better. How to pick poetry is a more complex problem: obey your nose and judge the poet on the basis of his fragrance...
...year in the party with Adlai Stevenson, an old family friend, considers herself "a Stevensonian Democrat," but adds: "My political views are probably pretty immature." Certain that she wants to go into the newspaper business but uncertain whether she will settle in Newsday territory ("It's hard to pick out a man that lives on Long Island"), Alice knows what kind of paper she would like to run: "The New York Times with guts...
...field events, Bulldog Stan McDonald is favored in the broad jump, and teammates Bill Stack and Fritz Cooper should defeated injured Jim Doty in the 35-1b. Weight throw. Bill Marble is a close pick over the varsity's Henry Abbot in the shot, although another record-sized heave by Abbot could alter things...
...varsity squash team opened its major campaign of the season yesterday afternoon in Philadelphia by soundly defeating Penn, 9 to 0. The Quakers could only pick up two games out of 27 as the varsity began sharpening up for the all-important Navy match today. Gerry Emmet, playing in the number one position for the first time this season, handily disposed of the top Penn player...
Voters will cast two ballots, one for political parties (not individual candidates), the other for functional groups. In actual practice, Sukarno will have the authority to hand-pick half the members of parliament. The chief losers under the new system will be the Moslem Masjumi Party, many of whose leaders backed the "rebellion of the colonels" that still flickers in the outer islands, and the Communists. For the Reds the new Konsepsi is also a bitter blow, since under the old system they had been confident of winning the next elections and coming to power legally. But Red Boss...