Word: picked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seizure of Lleras began well. A strange voice phoned the Lleras home to tell the candidate to get ready, that he was needed to help put down a plot against the junta. Lleras shaved, dressed and dutifully stepped into the military police truck that came to pick him up. But his captors committed the tactical error of racing past the presidential palace on their way to the barracks, and were stopped for speeding by the army's palace guards. The guards recognized the prisoner, leveled rifles at the military police, escorted Lleras to safety...
...graduated from DePauw (Ind.) University in 1937, was only a cub reporter on the Indianapolis Times when he cracked the freelance market with a $150 sale to the old Ken for an article on Dictator Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. After 20 years in the business, Martin can now pick his subjects and markets, draws top rates ($15,000 for the desegregation pieces). Meticulous and unhurried, he often writes first drafts 1,000 pages long, delights in the freedom of freelancing that has driven many another writer back to the certainty of the payroll. Says he: "I resist the bigness...
Cake Line. In Philadelphia, a worker stopped off to pick up unemployment money from the company that had laid him off, told Employment Manager George Brobyn: "Hurry up, my cab is waiting...
After the banner had been presented, Fair Harvard was sung, and then the confetti battle would ensue. Sometimes it rained, but nobody cared. When the battle was over the fighters exhausted yet thrilled by the pageantry, spectators would pick their way through the rubbish, dodging stray pieces of fluttering confetti, and adjourn to the baseball field for the Harvard-Yale game...
When the confetti battle broke loose a few minutes after he had finished speaking, "sweethearts and relatives were forgotten as Dr. Lowell became the main target and the 76-year-old educator frolicked about like a small boy, hurling back the balls and papers as fast as he could pick them...