Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free spending, Clement and his friends knocked the cars down at bids well above local retail prices for comparable used cars. Average for the 44 cars, one to seven years old: $1,065. After the sale an out-of-town dealer, who had gone to Nashville expecting to pick up bargains, grumbled: "I didn't make a single bid. Bidding started off at prices I would consider tops...
Morrison, father of the bride and manager of the nightclub that did the catering. Heady with surprise and indignation, Miss Davies told her side of the story: Morrison had asked the use of her home for the party, had promised to pick up all tabs. Now that his investment seemed a bad one, he was trying to get his money back, and she was not going to help. Said she: "I will gladly send a check for the amount of Mr. Morrison's claim to any deserving charity . . . but I refuse to recognize Mr. Morrison himself...
Harvard threatened in the first inning when Scheer led off with a walk, and Greeley singled him to second. Clasby sacrificed both runners along, and Johnson smashed a line drive to first. Crusader first sacker Fran Dyson reached high to pick off the smash for the second out, and then beat Greeley back to first for the side-retiring double-play...
Finally the pressure in Peter Akulonis' head grew too great to be withstood. He sidled around the shop, eyes wild, trying to pick fights. Then he quit. "I hope you choke, you bastards," he shouted, and walked out the door. Last week, after a few days of brooding, he roused himself to go job-hunting, but after one halfhearted attempt, he began drinking instead. One Little Room. Early in the afternoon he went back to his four-room flat, picked up a carpenter's ax, walked into the bedroom and killed his wife (with a single stroke from...
...they took it quite well. "Dada is not passe," he insisted. "The Dada spirit is eternal. Our art will always exist as a concrete expression of freedom." And he could feel that the visitors "understood immediately." Understanding or not, most people had trouble deciding if it was safe to pick up Duchamp's catalogue for the show. Duchamp had them printed on huge ( 2 ft. by 3 ft.) sheets of tissue, crumpled them into balls and packed them in a wastebasket. People with long memories half expected that the crumpled balls would explode with a bang if touched. None...