Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worldly problems seemed to be many, moreover. A former fellow tenant of Grover's describes him as "antagonistic, a brute, and a pretty fresh monkey, always ready to pick up his fists...
Donald H. Menzel, director of the Observatory and an expert in solar astronomy, has enlarged the collection of photographic slides, tracing stellar and solar movements, to the point that the graduate and undergraduate can pick from thousands of combinations for study...
...will need either a powerful radio which can pick up New York stations or a television set. And for three games he must wait until Sunday before watching motion pictures of Saturday's action on television...
When 25-year-old Patrick Joseph Frawley Jr. went into the ball-point-pen business in 1949, he could not have picked a worse time. The market was flooded with pens; bankers warned against writing checks with them (forgers could literally pick up a transfer of a signature); schoolteachers banned them; and retailers were swamped with complaints. But Pat Frawley was full of confidence-and with good reason. At 16 he was a salesman for his father's export-import business in Nicaragua; at 18 he negotiated a $300,000 deal between Panama and U.S. Rubber...
...Hippopotamuses, quite as dumpy-dainty as Disney imagined them in his Fantasia ballet, glide and swoop and teeter-tiptoe underwater, looking like corpulent, flirtatious, middle-aged belles at a eurythmics seminar, except when they gap their incredible yaps, and let the fish swim in to pick their teeth...