Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years to come . . . Even your curt, clear, complete words were inadequate to describe the wave of disgust that swept over us when Taft made his infamous offer to return a third of the loot. The dispatch with which the convention repudiated such tactics and nominated Eisenhower was a refreshing pick...
...Good Old Days. Conservatism, which has been defined as the worship of dead revolutionists, was present in the factors that led the Democrats to pick Stevenson. He was selected in spite of rather than because of the fact that he is a new face with a new line of talk. What the real leaders of the Democratic Party wanted was a man who could repair the North-South damage and the mink-coat damage of the Truman regime and thereby put the party back where it was when Franklin Roosevelt died...
After Stevenson finished his speech, he withdrew for a little serious politicking. In a low-ceilinged room behind the rostrum, the candidate and the President gathered with Democratic leaders to pick a Veep. The others present: Illinois' ex-Senator Scott Lucas, House Majority Leader John McCormack, Sam Rayburn, National Committee Chairman Frank McKinney, Jack Arvey...
...Territorial Governor Janary Nunes the gold rush was a disaster. Planters whose workers had deserted them crowded his office to ask who would pick the nuts and collect the rubber. The governor could not help them. He had his own problem: many of his civil servants had turned prospectors. When the fever subsided, the governor said, Amapa would have thousands of men, broke, hungry and stranded in the wilderness...
...lovers, looking for relief from the cultivated festivals that stipple the map of Europe, the Swiss National Yodel Festival last week was just the right rustic contrast. In the valley city of St. Gall (alt. 2,200 feet) gathered 2,800 apple-cheeked yo-di-li-o experts, the pick of Switzerland. The event was partly a competition, partly just a good chance to have...