Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone liking to build dams and wharfs; they are just as necessary in Turkey as they are in the U.S. For the first time we have a Prime Minister [Adnan Menderes-April 23] with initiative, who thinks of the future, and your magazine never misses a chance to pick on him. If Mr. Adnan Menderes had waited for his safes to be overloaded with cash before he started acting, stagnancy, which has been Turkey's misfortune in the past centuries, would have continued and prevented any improvement. Turkey needs more and more American...
...folly and his obstreperous methods, obstructed him for five long and crucial years, tried to break up his team and even to get him tossed out of the Navy. It remained for Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations since last August, to realize fully what Nautilus meant, to pick up where the engineers had left off and, as a professional Navy man, to turn the professional Navy once and for all toward the future...
...Karman is the model absent-minded professor. After he returns from a long trip, dozens of hats that he has lost dribble back by mail. During the war he was followed around by a special functionary whose duty it was to pick up secret documents that Von Karman left in taxis or hotel lobbies. He is never conscious of traffic: he crosses the most dangerous highway as if it were a country lane. His driving is as famous as his absentmindedness. A friend once suggested that he get three smashed fenders fixed. "Not yet," said Von Karman. He was waiting...
Fielder's Choice. In Mineola, N.Y., Construction Worker Dennis Smith vigorously denied that he had struck his wife, said: "All I did was pick her up and throw her out the door...
...stable of drivers who gun them to victory. Ferrari, who admits that "the results of a race are due only 50% to the car," splits prize money 50-50 with his drivers and (unlike most automakers) gives them a guaranteed minimum, win or lose, thus has his pick of the world's best drivers. He picks his pilots with the care he puts into tuning an engine, teams a cool, canny technician such as World Champion Juan Fangio with a hotspur such as Eugenio Castellotti, who won this year's Mille Miglia...