Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S cover story, "The Command Generation," [July 29] is brilliant and penetrating. The writer is knowledgeable and wise . . . and I have a bone to pick with...
...neurologists had thought that color perception and singing ability were exclusive functions of the dominant hemisphere, Coe has scored 24 out of 25 in a color test, and can sing familiar anthems, hymns and Home on the Range. While he cannot write script, he prints left-handedly. He can pick out the right answers to simple arithmetical problems. In one-handed manual tasks, Coe is more adept than most men. Long bed confinement delayed his relearning to use his right arm, but he is now improving in this...
...Herald-Courier, the nearest daily paper. A few months later, he learned that some stock was for sale in the Washington County News, the county's leading weekly (circ. 4,000), founded in 1948 by the son of Author Sherwood Anderson. Bowman eagerly went deeper into debt to pick up a 23% interest, and last January he took over as editor...
...Humbug Scrub to Boologooroo prowled the inner edge of the Great Australian Bight in search of opal gougers, oil drillers, boundary riders and randomly wandering rabbiters. One truck driver from Adelaide was asked to deliver and collect questionnaires on the lonely "No Tree" Plain when he went out to pick up rabbits from the wandering hunters. He got five tons of rabbits and 200 questionnaires...
Behind Harel's attacks, Mapai Party spokesmen thought they saw the hand of his old boss, David Ben-Gurion, who last year broke with Eshkol and formed the opposition Rafi Party. Gleeful Rafi men expected to pick up some support from disenchanted Mapai members and hoped eventually to unseat Eshkol. Last week they were spreading rumors that Mapai intended to replace Eshkol with either Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir or former Foreign Minister Golda Meir...