Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jimmy would explain gently that his wife had blackmailed him into signing an untrue confession. If pressed, he would add: "To me, public life is a profession. If you were going to seek medical advice, you wouldn't ask the doctor about his private life. You would simply pick the best doctor." Last week his Kaffeeklatsch-and-candor campaign paid off with a 6-to-1 victory in the Democratic primary. Jimmy is almost sure to win in November, unless, as often happens in soap operas, the problems pile up again...
...spelled plot. Volunteers reportedly were signing up in a "liberation army" gathering across the Honduran border under exiled Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas. A retired air force colonel, pretending to check the engine of a sports plane, zoomed mysteriously off to El Salvador, landing in a meadow en route to pick up a friend. Independent newspapers were reporting the hemisphere's growing sentiment against Arbenz' Communist-coddling with a factual thoroughness that the Reds regarded as downright traitorous. One midnight last week, with pressure building up, Arbenz assembled his Cabinet, which decreed a 30-day state of emergency suspending...
Plot? Yes, there is one, of sorts. Scholarly Doc is in the middle-aged dumps. Hazel, Fauna and the rest of Cannery Row decide that he needs a woman, perhaps even a wife. While guzzling a liquid killer called "Old Tennis Shoes," they pick the girl, a scrappy newcomer at the Bear Flag named Suzy. Suzy is unsure of herself. It seems that she was rejected as a child. As she tells it to her friend Hazel...
...whole situation with Mr. Wilson, and it adds up to this: neither he nor I can see an appropriate way to avoid the basic training . . . That is the wise thing to do, Dave, and that having done that, then I think there is an excellent chance that we can pick you up and use you in a way that would be useful to the country and to yourself. Just what they would be, I don't know ... I personally would like to arrange it . . . in such a way that you could use the knowledge and ability you have...
...good old days the payoff was easy. A Congressman could pick the postmasters in his district plus a couple of assistant U.S. attorneys, and some others. A Senator from New York could dictate the filling of about 20,000 federal jobs. "Today," says a U.S. Senator, "I can't keep one county happy. What little patronage there is solves nothing and is a cause of daily bickering and animosity." House Majority Leader Joe Martin had more jobs to dispense when he was minority leader under the Truman Administration than he has today as Republican top boss...