Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meanwhile, he and Mamie had worked out a compromise on vacation plans. The First Lady will remain in the air-conditioned comfort of the Gettysburg farm this week. Next week, when he makes a quick round trip to Philadelphia for a speech before the American Bar Association, Ike will pick her up and escort her to Denver by plane...
After lunch, Bulganin packed a crowd of diplomats, reporters and children into Zis limousines and took them off to see a deer park while pudgy Party Boss Khrushchev went out into a berry patch to pick raspberries with Defense Minister Zhukov. Down by the lake shore a memorable tableau formed. Ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov now acted as a glorified cruise director. He directed Admiral Sergei Gorshkov to pilot British Chargé d'Affaires C. C. Parrott and his wife around the lake in a motorboat. The admiral almost ran down a rowboat in which Mikoyan was rowing Mrs. Bohlen...
Soon pupils are confronted with rhymes (cat, fat, bat, etc.) and lists of words beginning with the same consonant. Thev might also be asked to pick out from a series of words (boy, toy, boy, dog, box) the two that are alike. They learn other words by how they are used in a sentence (e.g., milk, from "The cat drinks milk") are encouraged to look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary. Prefixes and suffixes, vowels and diphthongs, combination words such as oatmeal and airplane are all taught in their place...
...grey flannel suit. Rather, he is the unwilling wearer of a hair shirt imposed on him by a world he never made and is too weak to remake. Soon enough Steve gets a little outside ordinary life. On an auto trip to Maine with Nancy to pick up their children at camp, he gets drunk and Nancy leaves him to go on by bus. When Steve picks up a hunted criminal, he sees in him only the man who had the guts to lash back at life. In an ending that mixes brutality with insights, Steve gets his trolley back...
...Stormy Tornado (Betty Grable) and Curly Flagg (Sheree North) are a couple of down-at-the-G-string chorines. The star of their show. Stripper Cherry Blossom Wang, surprises every body by getting herself bumped off. and Stormy and Curly, having seen the murderer, take off to hide. They pick the men's dormitory of a small college. The academic atmosphere is charged with excitement. Sheree is accidentally hypnotized by a student-and remains in that state for most of the picture. Betty cuddles up with an overage student (Robert Cummings) who stays on in school because his grandfather...