Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a British naval helicopter an airman was lowered into the water to pick up what looked like a body. "Got it," he said, but all he had was a pair of trousers shorn off at the knees. A motorboat crew threw a grappling hook at what looked like another body. It was a shark and two pilot fish. Five bodies were recovered, three men and two women, and doctors who examined them were struck by the similarity of their injuries to those suffered in the Comet disaster off Elba. There were no significant burn marks, no sign of oxygen...
...gigantic problem. Lessons learned along the Ohio will be applied to the AEC's Savannah River plant and others on the West Coast. Radioactivity in the Columbia River below the AEC's Hanford plant has not reached an alarming level, the health engineers report, and though fish pick up some, most of it settles in such inedible parts as bone, heart and liver...
...supporting the three iron men who played the last four spring trip games without substitution. The scores run up in these games by Maryland, Navy, and Virginia came for the most part when Tom Crump, John Hartwell, or Paul Jones were just so fatigued that their fresh opponents could pick up that one extra step. With a week's rest and a substitute, they will be a tough group to penetrate...
Ward, who pitched the first four innings, and his successor, Jim Fitzgibbons, allowed the Engineers only three hits, all of the single variety. The varsity could do little better against the slants of the four Tech hurlers, however, as the Crimson batters could pick up only four hits. But 14 bases on balls, two Tech errors, and one each of wild pitches, passed balls, and balks sank the Engineers...
...next four places in the league are hard to pick. It's almost a tossup between a solid scrappy Boston team, a vastly improved Washington club, the always dangerous Indians and the puzzling but threatening White...