Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of the death of a winning candidate, the Republican National Committee, as empowered by its nominating convention, would pick another presidential candidate. The choice of the committeemen this year might be Vice President-Designate Richard Nixon; more likely, it would be someone of more seasoning and stature and almost certainly it would be Senator Robert A. Taft...
...draw, in Germany 45 years ago, his painter mother gave him a piece of advice. Pointing to a picture of a well-fed monk holding a glass of wine aloft, she said: "George, when you can paint a glass of wine so that it looks as if you could pick it right out of the picture, then you'll be a real painter." Artist Grosz never forgot his mother's words, but it was a long time before he cared to follow them...
...hunted up someone who I knew had gotten several tickets and stated my case. He was very sympathetic, and holding out a bunch of tickets fan-shape he asked me to "pick any two you wish." I was non-plussed...
Cagey club-members, like football coaches, sometimes refuse to reveal offensive programs. "Somebody else would pick up our plans," says Harry Francis, Club president. "They might get there ahead...
...Agassiz telescope will further explore the second method. Formerly, telescopes could pick out only ionized hydrogen which recombined with free electrons and radiated light in the visible spectrum...