Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have some bones to pick with your movie reviewer, Brad Darrach. My wife and I love movies, and practically supported Hollywood singlehanded through its lean years. Darrach has been spoiling pictures for us ever since he took his senior editor's advice ("Sure, sure, but what was the movie about?") so literally...
...sidewalks for half a mile. Buyers for hotels, restaurants, retail groceries and butcher shops swarm and haggle, crunch over the crushed ice of the fish pavilion to finger white octopuses or boxes of shiny mackerel, delicately press ripe Camemberts and sniff critically at Bries. As dawn breaks, late partygoers pick their way gingerly across the littered gutters to one of the small, famed bistros like...
...sweltering Nicaragua, Tacho Somoza readied a modest house on his cattle and cotton ranch, which overlooks the Pacific, for Peron. "He will be my house guest," said Tacho. "I might even give him a chance to do some work with a pick and shovel." But there were hints that Tacho, too, hoped that discredited Juan Peron would soon move on again...
...breed side by side. Also, the herons migrate through much of southeast Asia, which explains why Japanese B is rife in such places as Dienbienphu and Kuala Lumpur. In the Pusan perimeter, the bugs got out of hand when Army medics had to lay down their DDT guns and pick up Mis. Since this realization, U.S. forces have had relatively little trouble (only 30 cases, two deaths on Okinawa this year). They spray mosquito lairs, sleep under nets; in a tough combat situation they would slaughter all the nesting birds they could find...
...million deal "was a pretty big bite for a man worth only one-third that amount," Murchison amended his original estimate of his personal wealth. He was really worth, he guessed, "about $30 million." Added Murchison: "I consider money to be the same as manure. If you pick it up and put it out in the fields and till it, you get good returns . . ." Cracked Referee Fitzsimmons, dryly: "$20 million is a lot of fertilizer...