Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screen almost word for word. The result is talk, talk, talk. And even when the talk is good Shawmanship, Preminger and his cast manage to make it bad acting. Indeed, the whole company plays with such clumsiness that the expert Sir John Gielgud, as Warwick, has to pick his way to histrionic success like a first-string halfback dodging through the scrub...
Arthur Brisbane, journalism's Basic English eminence, then on the New York World, put Harriet to work as a columnist. It was a good pick. She had written brilliant copy for her own cream, and she did even better campaigning against the wasp waist and for shorter skirts, and announcing that yes, it was very wrong to eat peas off a knife. Perhaps gallant General Grubb might have conceded that, regardless of who won the Civil War, American women won the peace. Harriet Hubbard Ayer fought to the last man and had the final victory of picking up poor...
...firm constitutional provision, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines may not succeed himself as President of Mexico. By equally firm tradition, he can pick the candidate who will probably win the election. Some time in the next two months, President Ruiz Cortines will make the choice after a round of crucial but secret talks with former Presidents, Cabinet members, governors and generals-plus a long and lonely conversation with himself. The winner's name will gradually leak out, and he will be nominated when the all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) meets late this year. On the first Sunday of July...
...spiritual sleep-by entertainment today -TV. movies, and so on. Many are oblivious to God's grace and lack of Christian discipline. We need more discipline in our lives; we need to think. Everything is predigested for us. It takes real self-discipline to turn off TV and pick up the Bible...
QANTAS AIRLINE of Australia will get a San Francisco-New York route from U.S. despite opposition of U.S. lines. State Department is backing Australia's plea for route that will permit it to pick up London-bound passengers in either city so that much of its Australia-Europe traffic can be rerouted from explosive Middle East to U.S. Australia in return will grant rights which U.S. lines call almost worthless, e.g., permission to use it as base on flights to and from Southeast Asia, South Africa, South America (via South Pole...