Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continued to visit him at his new office below Montmartre. They visited him so regularly, in fact, that Louis' former colleagues became suspicious. One day last fall, armed with a telescope, police in an apartment across the street watched two known female addicts drop in on Louis and pick up a large package. They followed the women back to their apartment and caught them busily boiling down a batch of opium. There was still no direct proof that Métra had provided the opium, but the police kept watching and waiting. The watching was doubly difficult since...
Civil Defense workers are now preparing maps of escape routes which will be posted in university buildings. In the event of war, all vehicles would have to follow these prescribed routes and stop along the way or at special pick-up points for people without a ride...
...very large measure of agreement on defense, welfare, and 'internal housekeeping,'" Braucher continued, "with only minor differences on policy details. Because there are so few real differences in general policy, the Democrats need something that they can argue about. There are not many soft spots for them to pick at," he stated...
Private vehicles would be required to pick up people who have no transportation and have gathered at "pick-up points," such as Cambridge Common, along exit routes. University students would follow the same directions as regular Cambridge residents, Burke said...
...ruthlessly twisted around his neck. For long stretches. Author Wechsberg takes his eyes off Slansky-Stern to sketch in personal memories of how the easygoing Kaffeeklatsch world of his youth was laced into the straitjacket of Red tyranny. The book is good reporting. There is only one bone to pick with Wechsberg's theme-other and better novelists have already picked its bones...