Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quadrennial climaxes of American politics was beginning to take form. Candidates' headquarters were open, delegates' rooms were reserved for the Republican National Convention. After a year of campaigning, four years of talking and 20 years of Democratic rule, the Republicans again were going to try to pick a winner. Would it be Dwight David Eisenhower or Robert Alphonso Taft...
...little coal and pottery town of Crooksville (pop. 2,956), Ohio had ever set out to pick a potential hero from among its young men, it would never have chosen Ronald Rosser. Not that Ronald wasn't well liked-he was one of the quietest and best-behaved boys in town. But he just wasn't a fire-eater. He was a medium-sized (5 ft. 8 in.), medium-heavy (160 Ibs.) lad with medium brown hair, who seemed perfectly contented to lean against store fronts and watch the world-or what there was of it in Crooksville...
...naval court martial, an accused officer's sword must lie before his judges to point the way to innocence or guilt at the trial's end. If the sword is presented hilt forward, he may pick it up and resume his duties. If the point is forward, he has been judged guilty. Last week, in the musty wardroom where Hero Mars stood trial for insubordination and absence without leave, the sword was placed point forward. Penalty: dismissal...
Each year the program will pick six outstanding retired professors who want to go on teaching, send them to small liberal arts colleges that might otherwise be unable to afford them. The foundation will pay their salaries ($7,500 a year) but the host institutions will have to furnish the housing. It was ready last week to send off its first...
Unhappily, the picture soon digresses from lively realism to lagging melodramatics. Tyrone Power is a topflight U.S. diplomatic courier bound from Paris for Salzburg to pick up secret documents from another courier. To make sure that he is on schedule, Power wears two wrist watches. The picture also allows him two beautiful girls-a mink-coated American minx (Patricia Neal) and a blonde European charmer (Hildegarde Neff...