Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shaped masterpiece that he designed himself. While reading or talking, Reuther scribbles incessantly in notebooks, jotting down his jet-stream of ideas (even in bed, at night, when he thinks of something, he gets up to make a note of it). The U.A.W.'s top officials have all picked up the habit; when called, they pick up their notebooks and gather around Reuther's kidney-shaped command post. If they argue too long, he snaps: "I think I know the feeling of the workers." Once a six-page draft memo was brought to him for approval...
Next problem for Sir Gavin was to decide which pass was crossed by Hannibal. Old accounts say that from its summit, the invading Carthaginians could see the plains of Piedmont. This ruled out all except three passes. To pick the one that Hannibal took, Sir Gavin used ancient evidence that the army found new snow in the pass and also old snow from the preceding year. Climatological data, based on pollen grains found in ocean-bottom mud, prove that the climate of Europe in Hannibal's time was slightly warmer than it is today. This being the case, only...
...Tornadoes may spread a rare disease, reported Meteorologist Nicholas Manos of the U.S. Public Health Service. Amid the dust they can pick up and spread is the fungus that causes histoplasmosis, a TB-like disease of the lungs, marked also by swelling of the liver and spleen...
...candidates gave their final performances before a tense audience. The judges paid tribute to all twelve finalists. Said Zino Francescatti: "It's going to be enormously difficult for us to pick one above the other." Then they spent two hours carefully tallying their score cards, walked onstage to announce the results. The winner: the U.S.'s Senofsky. Runner-up: Russia's 29-year-old Julian Sitkovetsky...
...spontaneous and, unlike many "ad lib" radio or TV shows, unrehearsed. Its quality varies. At times it is pedestrian, at other times brilliant. As Moderator Bryson knows, a half hour is not enough time to get a conversational ball rolling very far. He depends on his listeners to pick up the ball at the end of the show. Many do. That is part of what keeps them listening...