Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaned forward, looking past me at the dead ashes in the fireplace, by his silence forcing me to look at him. "Don't sit near me tonight. You may get hurt," he said simply. He turned to deal with a telephone message. Someone had called to day they would pick him up. He asked who had called and, apparently discovering that an expected password had not been given, informed the jovial group with us with a smile that the caller was not the right person...
...Heps will be run in Ithaca today, and once again Harvard looks like a winner. But once again McCurdy says watch out for Navy; it could go either way. So what do you do? Pick the Crimson to win, of course, but credit the Middies with enough strength to make it just as close as it was last year...
...hours later, FBI men swept in, arrested Bowe at his home, Sayyed at his father's store, and Michelle at the Hotel Excelsior. New York police grabbed Collier at the Riverdale vacant lot as he and Wood arrived to pick up the dynamite. The four were charged with conspiring to destroy Government property, which carries a maximum penalty of $10,000 and ten years in prison. Collier was also charged with unlawful possession of explosives...
...been heavily criticized for being too soft on Cyprus, too slow in pushing national economic development. By handing his problems over to others for a few months, the old fox could hope that the new government would make a mess of things, allowing him to pick up the pieces...
...sooner was Panair grounded than Varig moved in to pick up the pieces, loaded passengers booked on a Panair DC-8 directly onto a Varig Convair 990 for a Lisbon-Paris-Frankfurt flight. Now Berta is talking about renting two of Panair's DC-8s and assigning a new Varig Boeing 707 to the transatlantic service. It was a familiar routine for Berta & Co. Panair is the tenth Brazilian airline that Varig has swallowed in as many years...