Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was not one but three press rooms, with special telephones, typewriters and reams of copy paper on hand. On the convention floor a bal cony and press tables were ready for reporters. An ample supply of headsets was available to pick up translations of speeches in the three official languages - English, German and French. There was also a full-time staff of 54 public-relations experts to see that the press got its share of the 6½ tons of speeches, reports and papers distributed to the delegates. Besides briefing sessions and press conferences, each afternoon Charles Taft, brother...
...years. Fans were piling into Milwaukee's County Stadium at a record 40,000-a-game clip. Cleveland had already surpassed its 1953 home-attendance figure. The Dodgers and Giants set turnstiles spinning whenever they met. The race was so close, a man was hard put to pick a winner...
RUSSIA'S TRADE with the West will pick up. Under British pressure, 15 nations (including the U.S.) have agreed to lift export controls on crude and diesel oils, light machine tools, farm tractors, copper wire, air conditioners, mica, tungsten, some 150 other products. Still under embargo: 170 strategic items, including weapons, uranium and airplanes...
...Force major and the shooting of Editor Carlos Lacerda (TIME, Aug. 16) seemed to point straight to the presidential palace. First the driver of the getaway cab identified a longtime Vargas bodyguard as one of the gunmen, but the man fled the palace before police could pick him up. Then angry air force officers, who staged their own investigation, seized another gunman and leaked a report that he claimed to have done the deed on order of Luthero Vargas, son of the President and a candidate for re-election to the Chamber of Deputies...
...Some ants are harvesters: they husk, store and dry seeds of grain, cutting roads six inches wide through vegetation to reach their crops. Most harvest ants march out together to gather the seeds, then straggle back with their burdens. Some ants which return without grain apparently feel embarrassed, pick up a useless pebble or a fallen petal and carry it along for show until they get home...