Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against the Russians. It was deeply moving-one of the finest pieces of reporting I had ever read. I thought of the sacrifices the men and women and children of Hungary were making for freedom. They were a symbol, I thought. And then I remembered that TIME had picked the G.I. in Korea as a symbol, and I knew they must pick a Hungarian now. So I put aside TIME and wrote to them...
...night of Oct. 29, when Israel attacked Egypt, the Sixth Fleet was busy with a complex landing exercise in Suda Bay, Crete. It speedily reboarded its marines and beached equipment overnight and headed east. Soon its destroyer groups and attack transports were slipping into Haifa, Gaza and Alexandria to pick up U.S. citizens and U.N. workers while the sleek grey carriers maneuvered in battle formations below the horizon. At one point, combat-ready marines were all set to storm through to Cairo just in case the Egyptians tried to prevent Americans from leaving, but the marines relaxed when the Egyptians...
Next to Ike, pick Dick...
...Christian uplift. Consequently, Wilkie developed a lifelong aversion to religion, preferred low society to high, and liked to dress for dinner in camel's-hair coats and pink shirts. He was shortsighted and short of stature, with tiny hands and feet. "Ordinary men," reports Biographer Davis, "could pick him up and carry him about like a child...
...Populi. In Washington, New Hampshire's Senator Norris Cotton received a fan letter from a high-school girl: "All my friends are saving pictures of movie stars, and I want to be different, so please send me photos of twelve senators, but pick carefully, even the best are sort of funny looking...