Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among the filthy Chinese; if they get back to the U.S., to how many Communists would they want to grant "Christmas amnesty"? Also her comments about Nixon. Who gives a damn what she thinks? Perhaps it would be well to let Eleanor select the next President. Maybe she would pick Harry Bridges...
Although the Olympics were always meant to be contests between individuals, not nations, national partisans insist on keeping team scores. The accidents changed the calculations, but the pick of the field were the Russians, competing in the Winter Olympics for the first time...
...only hope of a government with so narrow a base is that on matters of foreign policy it could pick up center-right votes and on domestic issues it could pick up Communist votes. This is known as the pendulum theory: getting support from the Communists without becoming beholden to them...
...price of a meal, he always filled his pockets with restaurant toothpicks. "Most of the time I'm on the Harlem diet now," he explained. "When I'm hungry and I ain't got the price of a feed, I drink a glass of water and pick my teeth. Then I use my imagination...
Preventive War. In Los Angeles, Roy Campbell, 28, warily approached Brad's Cafe, which he had been caught looting four times before, noted another burglar at work, called police and pleaded: "Get out here quick and arrest this guy, or I know who you'll pick up tomorrow...