Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Johnson, but I guess I'm really afraid of Senator Goldwater." Says G. Kinnear Pash, a Los Angeles securities analyst: "In general, you don't find too many people who are very pro-Johnson in the sense that they say 'If I had to pick one man for the White House, I would pick Johnson.' Mostly people are neutral on him and are negative on Goldwater...
...historic deal in which F.D.R.'s part of the bargain was to pick John Nance Garner for Vice President...
Whether to beg a boon or pick a bone, the man of action has always known where to go and whom to complain to. Job, for example, went straight to the top, while others took their problems to lesser officials, settled, like Juliet, for a friar; like Aladdin, for a genie; like Oedipus, for an oracle; or like Dorothy, for an available wizard. It is only modern man-charged with an item he did not purchase, in arrears on accounts he has long since paid, his mail misdirected, his drains stopped up, toaster broken or license expired-who does...
...would seem to be high time for Sergeants to jump into the television trough and suck up some of the gravy from the hillbilly trend it started as a Broadway play-illiterate mountaineers burbling with uncorruptible goodness. As Will Stockdale, Actor Sammy Jackson ought to make it. Guys pick fights with him and drive their fists against his stomach again and again while he just stands there smiling. Reveille is at 6 a.m., he learned when he started basic last week. "I ain't going to get up that late for nobody," he said...
...Tuesday, because of inadequate advance notice, the Washington FDP office released Rauh's legal brief to a half-attended conference. When notified that some reporters hadn't seen the brief, the office manager snapped: "Well then let them come over and pick one up." Harried newsmen, quartered in the Sheraton Park Hotel, found it difficult to travel cross town to the office, and as a result many never read the FDP's case...