Word: picking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chamber is also equipped with a voice recorder so sensitive that it can pick up even the softest and most confidential whisper, and betray it to the concealed investigators...
...more arms last summer, the Army's authority to sell at bargain prices had already expired. Thereupon Argentina made a deal to buy $7,000,000 worth of U.S.-made arms at current cost, but the dollar-shy Perón government has so far been able to pick up only $1,800,000 worth of the order. Since the Argentine deal was made, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Peru and Uruguay have all tried to buy in the U.S. market. Their orders have not been big enough for U.S. manufacturers to start up production lines...
...ground between making all a child's decisions for him and overwhelming him with too much freedom of choice. She cites the case history of a nine-year-old boy who had been going to progressive schools which forced him to make decisions beyond his capacity. Asked to pick a new school, he suggested a military school because "I won't always have to be deciding what I want...
There are some hopeful factors, however. The agreement of Democratic leaders to frame a bill which "the party could support" might pick up enough votes to pass the House and still re-legalize the closed shop, clean up the non-voting rules which now disenfranchise strikers in plant elections, and provide for legal machinery less abrupt, than the present injunctions rules. In the Senate, there is some hope of compromise between the Administration bill and a minority proposal drawn up this week by Senator Taft. In both Houses, though, labor forces will have to contend with stubborn opposition from Republicans...
...been out of town for some years before his inauguration in 1725, remarked the valedictory exercises with interest. "I was Informed also that ye President & Fellows should sit with their Hats on when Valedictories are pronounced," he wrote. Early in the senior year, apparently, the Class got together to pick someone to deliver the valedictory. By 1750, there had been added more class officers, a dinner, and a sermon, as well as the Latin oration. In 1743, at an election meeting, several seniors were "found guilty of drinking prohibited Liquors," and were fined...