Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks pundits had been adjusting their political Geiger counters to pick up every psychological click from South Dakota's Republican primary. Those 14 delegates were important, everyone agreed, but the bigger prize was the effect on voters everywhere of victory in the last state primary...
...eight hours in a room at San Francisco's Palace Hotel, drinking coffee, eating buttered snails and planning a four-week splurge that may even make California's eyes pop. They will bombard the delegates with mail and telegrams, have helicopters drop out of the sky to pick up signatures on Ike petitions, and otherwise seek to show that the voters want Ike. There is talk that some of the pros from the Eisenhower headquarters want to move into California to work on delegates, but the local volunteers are trying to hold them off. They say that...
...dusk fell next day, 200 troopers, carrying wicker shields to ward off sticks and stones, marched into Serowe. Some had fixed bayonets, others heavy pick handles. Colonel Langley himself carried a sawed-off shotgun. This time the cops were rougher. They stormed into mud huts, boxed their occupants' ears, beat up all who resisted a search for beer and weapons. By nightfall, 41 Bamangwato, including four royal princes, were penned in a stockade near Batho...
...size of a U.S. nickel. The napoleon (named for the ruler who first issued it) has a nominal value of 20 francs, or less than a cent. On France's free money market, it brings 4,000 francs ($11.40). But the visitor to France is not likely to pick up many napoleons. The thrifty, inflation-wise French keep their gold-an estimated $5 billion worth-hidden away in socks, sugar bowls and mattresses...
...army colonel's uniform in Moscow and made hay with the Kremlin. Triumphantly back in Bucharest in 1944, she personified Soviet power, drove a bulletproof automobile, enjoyed Bucharest's best food and its fastest growing waistline. She was said to be the only Rumanian Communist who could pick up a phone and talk to Stalin...