Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bits of carpeting, an acrid smell around the wreckage -like burned-out fireworks -and a greyish residue on some of the bits of the plane all indicated high explosives. Technicians from the FBI and the Douglas Aircraft Co. were summoned, and a crew of 40 men was dispatched to pick up every fragment of the plane, and cart it all back to Denver. There, in a warehouse near the airport, the experts began the painstaking job of fitting the fragments together again...
...article by pointing to all the nasty things the Western press has said about Russia.) Oistrakh seems to enjoy a large degree of independence from the usual restrictions on junketing Russians. Getting interested in a conversation with a Western friend in a cafe, he has been known to pick up the telephone, call the Russian embassy and say simply: "This is Oistrakh. I won't be back for lunch...
Salvator Arnita, who heads the music department at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, is one student who considers his own situation a special case. An organist and composer who has previously made several European trips, Arnita hopes to pick up additional experience by auditing the courses of several music professors...
...years. Paul ("Magic Bullet") Ehrlich had shown that antibodies, missing from the blood of calves at birth, can pass to the young in the dam's colostrum. It had been thought that the human species, whether babe or grown man, was unable to pick up these protective antibodies. Not so, say Petersen and Campbell: man and a slew of barnyard beasts and birds can benefit from them. A cow that is vaccinated in the dry phase with preparations of killed bacteria, will produce colostrum* with 120 times the antibody concentration found in blood. The level falls from these peaks...
Degas never meant his wax studies to be seen. He doubted his own results wrote a friend at the time: "I never seem to achieve anything with my blasted sculpture." He often journeyed to the Hébrard Foundry on the outskirts of Paris to pick up pointers. In his lifetime, he exhibited only one statue, an awkward ballet rat dressed in a real gauze tutu and hair ribbon. But even this and a few other waxworks caused his friend Renoir to exclaim: "Why, Degas is the greatest living sculptor." Degas was not so sure, once remarked: "To be survived...