Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither ever regretted their decision. Floyd's heart was won at the moment he called in a station wagon to pick up the two boys, each of whom was quartered in a different home. As soon as the youngsters met, they hugged each other, and the oldest turned, beaming at Floyd, and said: "I've been praying that somebody would adopt us all. You're gonna make a swell dad." Most of the difficulties which the Floyds had anticipated melted away. American Airlines obligingly shipped all five children to California on passes. The Floyds managed a bigger...
...stalking the Kremlin, a four-power conference seemed less appropriate than ever. Whoever represented Russia at such a conference would gain in recognition and stature against his rivals. It is hardly in the interest of the anti-Communist powers to abate the dog fight by helping the Communists to pick a new top dog. At this time of renewed treachery and revolt in the Communist world, any contribution the U.S. could make toward its further disunity might pay off handsomely...
Photographers covering Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito at his summer headquarters on Brioni Island in the Adriatic snapped him sitting in the sun with a tanned and traveled visitor, Adlai Stevenson. After lunch and talk, Stevenson pushed on to Greece to pick up son Borden, thence to Rome to meet son John Fell...
...also took first in the 400-meter run, high jump and shot-put. Going into the second day with a big 717-point lead, Milt won the 110-meter high hurdles by nearly a second in 14.3, later loped heavy-footed through the 1,500-meter run to pick up a final 134 points...
...mostly Brubaker was resentful. Why pick on him? He had come back from flying in World War II and married the girl he loved. He was the father of two small daughters who were very dear to him, and he had just got started as a lawyer in his home town. Now here he was in Korea, fighting a war he hardly understood, convinced that the vast majority of his fellow citizens didn't give a hoot...