Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists were looking for a pretext to break off the talks, Mendès had figured that U.S. "dissociation" was the one they were most likely to pick, since it would let them blame the U.S. for failure. Cheered, he went off to cut up the map with Pham Van Dong in the villa by Lac Leman...
...ease of a stream of consciousness. Through spontaneous "poems," pupils begin to learn the power of words; through reading and trips around the community, they combine past and present history; and through a bewildering array of projects (e.g., wiring the classroom bell, building a weather station), they pick up the essentials of science-while also having a good deal...
Ricochet Romance. In Hutchinson, Kans., Bill Dennis and Pat Gough finally said "I do" after a wedding day in which 1) Dennis forgot to pick up the license, 2) Pastor Lonnie Smith became ill, 3) the bride's brother failed to arrive, 4) the air conditioning blew out the church candles, 5) Dennis, waiting at the altar, discovered he had misplaced the ring...
...possible to obtain . . . was that about 8% of the students were card-carrying members of the Communist Party, about 40% were fellow travelers, and at least 70% were anti-American." Communist students spend much of their time distributing pamphlets and papers through nearby villages, are able to pick up Soviet literature at any bookstall for comparatively little-11? for a Life of Lenin, one rupee (21?) for his complete works. In Delhi, he adds, "we learned of the policy of the Soviet Embassy to invite all students of the university during their senior year to a series of informal entertainments...
...Wiesner, director of the electronics laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who had helped pick the site, then Cohn told the committee that the scientist was now opposed to the Seattle location. Wiesner later told Woltman that Cohn had "misrepresented" his position, that he had never changed his mind about the Seattle site, and that "the sabotage charge was completely unfounded and ridiculous." Said Woltman: "By failing to present [this] vital testimony, Senator McCarthy could report mismanagement approaching sabotage . . . And the world's two largest transmitters now lie useless in Government warehouses." Swallows Come Home. Was there ever...