Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vice-President said that the United States should make more use of electronic communication media including television to present its views to underdeveloped nations. He maintained that "village views are backed up with village votes. Through their village radios they can pick and choose what they want to believe...
Arthur Carlsberg, 32, of Los Angeles, has earned $5,000,000 in the business in which fortunes have traditionally been made fastest: real estate. He is chairman of Rammco Investment Corp., a Southern California land-investment firm that has shown a canny ability to pick farmland plots that later boom into building sites. Exuberant demand for choice land-which has helped send the price of housing sites in the U.S. up 15% annually during the 1960s-enables a land speculator to multiply his money in a hurry...
...derailment was identical to one which occurred Nov. 20, As the car rolled into the station to pick up passengers, one wheel slipped off the track. The MBTA dispatcher was unable to explain the two accidents...
...Coast Guard inquiry was expected this week. As always, passengers had a hundred conflicting stories. While many had high praise for the crew, the captain of the Finnpulp said that he had turned back the first lifeboat because it was loaded with seamen, ordered it to return to pick up passengers. Voutsinas blandly accounted for the remarkable survival of his crew-only two of 174 died-by explaining that they were "young and well trained, and many of the passengers were elderly...
...thrillers, impossible to believe but easy to enjoy. With a script that gives her lucid intelligence little to fasten upon, Actress Thulin often seems well beyond the wit's end of the character she plays-a Jewish doctor who returns to Paris after World War II, eager to pick up her successful practice and her ne'er-do-well young husband...