Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students can pick up tickets at the H.A.A., prior to games, or can be admitted at the gate without a ticket. In either case, there will be no charge, and the presentation of bursar's cared will be sufficient...
...Gregory Silvermaster, who thereafter photographed them and turned over the undeveloped but exposed film to a contact of the Soviets in either Washington, D.C. or New York City. In the past, it is reported, the contact man made trips to Washington, D.C. once every two weeks and would pick up on such occasions an average of 40 rolls of 35-millimeter film...
First, he smashed the links by merging them into huge (80 to 150 men) agricultural brigades, bossed by the commissars. Pravda described one brigade at work on the Lenin's Memory kolkhoz: "The brigade women pick the potatoes dug up by machines driven by the men . . . They are followed by supervisors from the party cells who mark down the efficiency of each worker...
When the Tory Party took over in 1951, Sir Winston continued, Britain was "going from bad to worse . . . in spite of the millions the Socialists had got from America." But now the housewife could "pick and choose . . . meat, red meat." As for rent increases, "The tenants will be safeguarded fully at every stage...
...nuggets sifted from the river gravel by friendly headhunters. On the journey out of the jungle, he and his companion were forced to bury about half the gold because it was too heavy to carry farther. Living comfortably in San Francisco now, Clark has never gone back to pick...