Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...55th birthday in London, Britain's Prince Henry William Frederick Albert, an air chief marshal of the R.A.F., an honorary captain in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, but more recognizable as the Duke of Gloucester, hied himself to Buckingham Palace to pick up a present from a favorite niece Queen Elizabeth II. The gift: the rank and baton of a British Army field marshal...
...several. Policy and principle were sabotaged by personality and expediency. While F.D.R. proclaimed the bright future of the common man, mushrooming Government bureaus sapped self-reliance by nurturing security-consciousness. "The most powerful of American Presidents" chose to time vital actions of state on such cues as he could pick up at the keyhole of public opinion. Concludes Robinson: "Roosevelt's failure lay in his unsuccessful attempt to justify the means or establish the ends he had in view. This was his personal tragedy. Inasmuch as on major decisions he had a majority support, it was also the tragedy...
When Walter Camp died in 1925, Rice was asked to pick Collier's All-America football teams. After 50 years of picking them Rice in his autobiography named not only his alltime best college footballers but the best baseball pitchers. Though Dizzy Dean is not on the list ("He didn't pitch long enough"), he obviously rated a favored spot in Rice's heart. After reeling off a flock of other peoples' stories about Dean, Granny tells of the time he sat on the train with Diz and his brother Paul the season the two Ozark...
...Flame of the Inn is dim tonight- Too many vacant chairs- The sun has lost too much of its light- Too many songs have taken flight- Too many ghosts on the stairs- Charon-here's to you-as man against man- I wish I could pick...
...laughs come as thick as tarts in Montmartre-the audience sees them coming and begins to grin-but the script (by Robert Buckner) mereiy adjusts its monocle, stares, bows ever so sligntiy, and declines to pick them up. Guinness obviously does not care so much if the audience gets the joke; he wants it to see the humor of his situations...