Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...killed 41 people, sent 500,000 fleeing, caused $875 million damage, flooded 2,000,000 acres. While the flood rolled on -less dangerously-into the Mississippi and past St. Louis, local, state and federal officials began to discuss what could be done for the future. Major General Lewis A. Pick, Chief of Army Engineers, told the congressional committee that the whole disaster might have been averted had $300 million been appropriated for flood-control projects in that area under the Pick-Sloan Plan. But that was not done because there was local opposition to using large areas of farm land...
Columnist Hedda Hopper thought it was high time Hollywood stopped trying to make its stars look like just folks, and began marketing some of the oldtime glamour. Said she: "You can't pick up a magazine without seeing pictures of your favorite star marketing...washing dishes, hanging out diapers, changing babies. If they haven't got a baby they romp with a dog... You never saw Valentino holding a child; but you saw him with a beautiful babe on his arm. Jack Barrymore never posed for a life-with-father layout. Have you ever seen a picture...
Baker, an ex-film character actor, decided not to let little Gary shoot up a TV set on the program. But there are plenty of other alarming requests to pick from. Some 2,000 come in every week, 45% of them from the not-so-innocent young. Last week Baker decided to gratify one of his most grisly requests to date, was going ahead with plans to film a face-lifting operation on a woman...
...system, the color-television camera breaks a picture down into three colors (red, green and blue). These color impulses are broadcast, picked up by a television receiver circuit, which sets .off three electronic "guns" (one for each color) inside the picture tube. They project the picture on the face of the tube so fast (1,800 times a minute) that the three color pictures blend into a single all-color one. * Reginald Fessenden had made such a broadcast in 1906, when wireless operators at sea were startled to pick up the unearthly sounds...
...began to flood from a waterline shell hole suffered in the first day's attack. In the engineroom the depleted crew of eleven worked at temperatures up to 170 degrees, drank ten gallons of tea during the frantic run. In the chart-room, two men tried to pick out the channel with an echo sounder. One thing was sure: the Amethyst had to hit the narrow opening in the boom or "she would slice off her bottom." As she approached it, a flare went up, Communist guns opened fire and the river erupted in waterspouts. Kerans saw a single...