Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Home & Abroad. The year after Baltimore lost its last major-league ball club 52 years ago, Tommy was born in a crowded row house on President Street, the fourth of his mother's 13 children. To support them, Tomaso D'Alesandro, Tommy's father, swung a pick in a city rock quarry. Such work was not for junior. While still at night high school, he hung around the Third Ward Democratic headquarters, at election time rang door bells and passed handbills...
Daniel Webster: You seem to have an excellent acquaintance with the law, sir. The Devil: Sir, that is no fault of mine. Where I come from, we have always gotten the pick...
After the tests have been marked each question is studied on a special item analysis chart. A question of average difficulty is expected to be answered correctly by 60 percent of those trying to pick one of the five possible answers usually provided in ETS tests. If more people choose a particular wrong answer that the right one, the question is eliminated. This occasionally happens because of ambiguity on the part of the test-maker. An example of this is the following question included in a recent aptitude test...
Malayans, who learned the game from the British, years ago adopted it as their national sport. On the island of Penang, Eddie Choong and his older brother David picked up badminton the way U.S. youngsters pick up baseball. And when the Japanese occupied Penang in 1941, the Choong boys filled up their time with badminton for want of much else to do. "No more than four persons were allowed together at one time," Eddie remembers. "Five, and poff, into jail you went. So we played badminton in our father's garden...
...deepest problem of all is that fierce drive inside herself that makes bosses, husbands and lovers shy away, and makes her simultaneously bitter about a "man's world." With a final slightly pat irony, Grace gets the big job only because the man who is given first pick wants too much money...