Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pants suits, thinks they are ideal for traveling and shopping -as well as dancing. Says she: "I practically live in them." Sandra Dee sees nothing incongruous about wearing them as she rides about Los Angeles in her Rolls. Wellesley Senior Chris Godfrey finds them the perfect outfit when gallants pick her up for a date on a motorcycle. Radcliffe Junior Peggy Auchincloss thinks that "they will solve the problem of freezing at football games...
...state's cash transactions. Yet, he remarks, "Farmers are being forced to conduct a social-welfare experiment for the Federal Government." The hottest issue among California farmers is the U.S. Labor Department's cancellation of a longtime arrangement whereby Mexican braceros entered the country without visas to pick crops. When they did not appear last year, California farmers were badly hurt by the scarcity of labor. The Governor, Reagan charges, "didn't even use his prestige to appeal to the Federal Government. He raised his voice in agreement: so summer ripened into fall and crops ripened...
...saying, he declared the ill-fated conspirators under arrest, sent a ship to pick up the DC-4's stranded passengers. There was no need to apologize to the residents of the Falkland Islands: the at tempted invasion had given them something to talk about for years to come...
...thought it might have had something to do with the recent night when the Yanks played to exactly 413 paying fans, and he suggested that the cameras pass around so the TV audience could count the house themselves. At any rate, he was happy to be "free to pick and choose" a new job. And it wouldn't be with one of those clubs where "you wind up with more young Ivy League guys in grey flannel britches than you have any idea...
...where did Kozintzev pick up his pretentious way of dealing with objects? After human beings have deserted the frame his camera hangs on chairs, clock parts, a fire. These gratuitous images are less irritating then his heavy-handed roping-in of the elements, the ocean he begins and ends with, the hills that his pan zigzags across after Hamlet talks to the ghost of his father...