Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bully of the colored races, Britain, once again has had her own way, but will she be able to pick up the pieces this time...
...Undersecretary, Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, whisked him aside during a party to propound that unless the U.S. went along with the British on Suez, the Eden government would fall, and there would have to be elections in January; the implication was that anti-Americans of the right or left would pick up more power...
...selecting a bargaining representative was to find a man of whom Lewis would approve. This represents the ultimate extension of the historic principle of the Wagner Act that workers have a right to be represented in collective bargaining by unions of their own choosing. Now the workers not only pick their own bargaining representative, but, in effect, pick the employers' bargaining representative as well...
Jordan (pop. 1,500,000), a precarious sandtrap, is currently host to a Syrian brigade and an Iraqi brigade, nominally there to help defend it against Israel, but ready to pick up the pieces if Jordan itself flies apart. New Premier Suleiman Nabulsi, echoing the demands of the Nasserites in his Parliament, last week demanded the stopping of Britain's $33 million annual subsidy, but significantly qualified his demand by waiting to see whether his Arab neighbors would make up the difference to keep his country going. One of the few remaining benefits London gets for its Jordanian subsidy...
...Mountain just as winter is setting in, little brother begs big brother to guide him up the mountain so that he can loot the plane, and the passengers too. Big brother indignantly refuses. "You want to go up The Mountain, within the sight of God, so that you can pick the pockets of dead people?" Nevertheless, when little brother threatens to go alone, big brother decides to do for love what he would not do for money. In the language of symbol: Good would never have got going if it had not been for Evil...