Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ridden Christian Democratic Party, Gronchi is the leader of a group which advocates the "opening to the left." He is also his party's outstanding symbol of a leftist neutralist tendency. With Scelba's government riven by disputes, the danger is that Gronchi would, sooner or later, pick a Premier who would bring the Nenni Socialists and their Communist-minded policies into the government...
...tried to be Democrats in the state and Republicans nationally. If those characters lived in Peoria, they'd be Republicans. That's what they ought to be. We've got rid of the shotgun [the loyalty oath]; now we're working with a rifle to pick off the worst ones...
This new kind of pastorate might never have come into being if, one day in 1948, the organ in a small Minnesota country church had not broken down. Deacon Alan Humrickhouse of Royalton, Minn, (pop: 500) went looking for an electrician. He found Vernon Pick at nearby Two Rivers. Talking over the repair job at Pick's house, he was surprised to find the electrician had a library that would do justice to a college professor. Pick was equally surprised to hear the way the deacon talked electric motors (he had been installing communications equipment for the Bell Telephone...
Three years after their first talk, Electrician Pick went out looking for uranium. After months of hardship, he struck it rich near Grand Junction, Colo., became one of the U.S.'s first uranium millionaires (so far, Pick's Delta Mine has made him about $10 million-TIME, Sept. 6). Before long, like many another really rich man, Pick found that the world's less fortunate swarmed toward him at the news of his success; his mail was stacked high with requests for everything from medical aid to a sports car for use in uranium prospecting...
Later in the show he asked for volunteers who modestly raced down the aisle to the stage to tie Blackstone's hands (he escaped) and pick cards (he told them which...