Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, but only on the condition that "immediate" does not imply "action at an unsuitable time." But this time he retreated from his own earlier (May 1953) plea for a "parley at the summit." "It seems to me," he said, "with the Geneva Conference imminent . . . you could hardly pick a more illchosen moment ... for a meeting of heads of states. We must certainly see what happens there before attempting what is, after all, a very unusual reserve procedure...
Skip the Gong. Over the past 20 years Director Marx and Associate Wanda Ellis have listened to more than 400,000 such hopefuls. Each week Wanda Ellis weeds out the worst of the contestants, and then Marx and Producer Lou Goldberg join her to pick from the survivors six acts to compete with the winner of the previous show. All worked for the famed Major Edward Bowes until his death in 1946. They formed a partnership with Bowes's lawyer and Ted Mack, the current master of ceremonies, to create the TV version of the show, which has been...
...needed and dreamed of sending him one day to the U.S. But Ronnie coughed more and more, and then developed even more alarming symptoms. He began walking with an old man's stoop, and, when he dropped a toy, he would fall to the floor before he could pick it up. An orthopedic surgeon gave Grace the answer: Ronnie had tuberculosis of the spine. Only a delicate bone graft could save him. Grace Kim made her decision...
Nobody knows how many Americans play handball (rough guess: 1,000,000) because all the game really needs is a hard rubber ball and a back fence. Last week the pick of U.S. players, including back-fence alumni as well as veteran club players, met in Chicago for the U.S. Handball Association Championship...
Chester Greenough, former Dean of Students, and Coolidge, the first two Masters, were instructed to pick out the boys they desired and try to persuade them to join their Houses. Although Coolidge together with Merriman of Eliot was to enjoy the position of heading one of the two most popular houses in Cambridge through most of the 1930's, Dunster under Greenough got off to the better start. Apparently Greenough promised all-American quarterback Barry Wood an entire entry for himself and his friends if he would choose Dunster. Master Coolidge, as head of the Watch and Ward Society, simultaneously...