Word: picking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Gilbert Winant lived a hard and nerve-racking life. He came home, after his resignation in March 1946, to accept another hard job for his country-permanent U.S. representative on UNESCO. But last December he asked President Harry Truman to relieve him of his duties. He wanted to "pick up life again as a private citizen in my own country...
Victor Ratner, for one, is sick & tired of hearing critics pick on radio. "Radio's made in the image of the American people," says he. "To lambaste it is-why, it's un-American...
Edie prefers to drink coffee laced with rum, never lets the house pick up the check. Says she: "When a guy takes me out, he takes out a girl -not a column." But the "Rambling Reporter" goes along too. As Edith says: "Everything I hear goes in one ear and out the column...
...greatest timesavers for customers in Foley's new store is a chute system to deliver packages to a central claim desk. Buyers do not have to wait or load themselves down, but pick up all their packages at one time...
...settled down to housekeeping and running down a husband for Lily, her 16-year-old illegitimate daughter. Then Putt had to go and get himself killed. Said Molly, the day of the funeral: "Maybe it wasn't his fault, but I ought to have had the sense to pick out a man who could've dodged a train on a track...