Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them shouting, "Lama! Lama!" The boy seized a rosary that had belonged to the old Dalai Lama and hung it about his own neck. He had the protruding ears of a Buddha, the moles that marked the traces of a second pair of arms, the ability to pick out from a collection of objects-rosaries, canes, drums for summoning servants-the ones that belonged to the old man. In 1939, aged 4, seated on a golden palanquin, he was borne to Lhasa, where he was soon enthroned as the 14th incarnation of Chen-Re-Zi, the patron...
...Just pick up your toes...
Idol Apparent. Last week, peering at the world through the traces of an elegant shiner picked up in the Cambridge fight, Kris signed a contract with Top Rank, J. Arthur Rank's British recording firm (he is also dickering with J. Arthur's calamitously titled U.S. subsidiary, Rank Records), and set off with a earful of fellow Oxonians to tour Switzerland on the first proceeds. The young idol-apparent, renamed Kris Carson by Promoter Lincoln, is dead serious about making a success as a singer, chiefly because he wants enough money to be able to support himself while...
...able to announce a drop in unemployment of 58,-ooo-the biggest decrease in any one month in twelve years. Said he: "The first seven years in opposition are always the most difficult. I cannot help it if every time the Opposition are asked to name their weapons, they pick boomerangs...
...himself for what was to follow. On the afternoon of Oct. 6, 1954, he walked out of his Athens home, telling his wife Kiki: "Don't worry. I'll be back soon." But he also instructed her to burn his old clothes, so that no dog could pick up a scent from his clothing (the British once offered $1,400 for an old suit of Grivas...