Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beat her; Sol said his father-in-law pushed him around; Gross insisted that Sol had asked him for $15,000 as his price for a divorce. At any rate, a police radio car soon pulled up to the marquee of the Century. Sol lingered long enough to pick up two books for cell reading: a cookbook, and How to Make Marriage Successful. When he got outside, he found that his father-in-law had gone off to the police station stylishly, in a cab. But, said Sol, "I'm a poor schnook.*I got into the radio...
...prestige of the intellectuals has been strong enough to stave off any attempt at mass annihilation. The government's policy has been rather to pick off the remaining recalcitrants one by one. The policy seems to be working only too well. "It's a steamroller," says Correspondent Guillian, "so heavy no man can escape the crush." Concluded Frank Moraes of the Times of India after a tour of China: "For the first time I realized what for many years I had sensed vaguely but never grasped. To have your body imprisoned behind prison walls is degrading...
...specialized technical talent. Brookings' staffers and alumni of its graduate school have advised virtually every executive agency and congressional committee in Washington on subjects ranging from highways to health insurance. When the President's Council of Economic Advisers was formed in 1946, it seemed natural to pick Brookings' Vice President Edwin G. Nourse as its first chairman...
...railroads, few have branched out into more off-track business than the Southern Pacific. It runs a 22-acre produce market in Los Angeles, sold 47.5 million bd. ft. of timber from its 430,000 acres of tree farms last year, has a corps of drivers who pick up every General Motors car produced in California and deliver it to dealers. It was one of the first railroads to start a bus line; it has more truck-line routes than track mileage, and it has even tried to sell airline tickets at its whistle-stop stations. Last week the Southern...
ECONOMY DRIVE to get the U.S. Government out of business will pick up steam this year. After stalling last year, the plan for the Pentagon to discontinue 52 business-type operations (including 19 office-equipment repair shops, nine auto-repair shops) is getting a green light from the House Appropriations Committee...