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Word: picking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, Douglas has been trying to get the President to fill three vacancies on the Illinois federal bench, where the docket is badly overcrowded. By ancient senatorial privilege, as the state's only Democratic Senator, he is entitled to pick the men whom the President will nominate. He sent the White House three names, one of them a past president of the Chicago Bar Association. Jake Arvey's Democratic machine boys okayed Douglas' choice. But Harry Truman put off his decision, nursing a growing grudge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Kick for the Senator | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...more than 100,000 people in Kansas and Missouri were driven from their homes, and 41 were killed. Flood waters covered 1,500,000 acres. Major General Lewis A. Pick, chief of the Army Engineers, estimated damage at $750 million, the costliest flood in U.S. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Most Disastrous Day | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...York Yankees' Outfielder Joe DiMaggio, usually as closemouthed as a Russian diplomat, took a preliminary sniff of the Fourth of July weather last week and made his pick. "It will be a finish fight between the Red Sox and us," said Joe. Then, with a look at the American League leaders: "The White Sox will make trouble right to the end, but they are not going to win, because when [Manager] Paul Richards will need his pitching most it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midseason Form | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

Next day CBS began its regular color schedule, which will gradually be expanded to 20 hours of color a week: one hour in the morning before 11, two hours in the late afternoon, and two hours on Sunday. For the millions whose black-and-white sets will pick up nothing but meaningless squiggles from CBS during those hours, CBS President Frank Stanton hopefully asserted that colorsets would be coming off U.S. assembly lines by Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Color Debut | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...they might, Air Forcemen could not spot Bed Check's home base, thought it probably was a small field in North Korea, perhaps even a dried-up river bed. They also failed to pick him up on their elaborate radar screen, because he slithered in and around Korean, hills at such low altitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ENEMY: Curtains for Bed Check | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

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