Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready reserves would drill once a week, go to summer camp two weeks a year. They would be subdivided into "early" and and "late" units, the earlies able to spring into action almost overnight, the lates within a few months. Units would have 50% of their equipment on hand, pick up the rest in packaged loads at predesignated mobilization points...
...veterinarians may be called up; skilled technicians, lawyers, journalists, photographers will be put on the reserve lists. The French hope that the mobilization decree will blast some of Indo-China's young intellectuals off their ideological fence. De Lattre's ringing challenge to them: "Be men. Pick your sides. If your sympathies are with the Viet Minh go into the mountains and join them. If they are not, then join the new Vietnamese army and defend yourselves...
...Yankees, also a "home" club, have been unable to gain on them while playing at home. If Bob Lemon terminates his month-long slump or if Al Rosen begins to hit in 1950 style, the Indians will probably win the pennant. If neither should improve, I would still pick Cloveland...
...sake of argument, let us neutralize somewhat these differences. The Dodgers pick up five losses to St. Louis, giving them only a nine and seven record. The Giants pick up at least four wins to neutralize the losing streak--one of them over the Dodgers. Now, instead of their actual 63-33 and 56-45 records, we find 97 wins and 39 losses for the Dodgers, 60 and 41 for the Giants--putting the Giants one half game ahead, instead of nine and a half behind Brooklyn...
...where you want to go safely, comfortably," got a fast letter from 22 soldiers in Korea: "We are 1 6 miles north of the 38th parallel on the main supply route, third foxhole on the right, off in a rice paddy with very little water in it. Please pick us up as soon as possible...