Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the first and only ballot, Goldwater was culy 30 votes below a majority--323--and more than 100 votes ahead of the New York governor. Rockefeller organizers were reportedly worried that if a second or third ballot were held. Goldwater might pick up the few voted he seeded...
...like they weren't friends to me." He sometimes makes quiet and kindly gestures?such as sending some money to Bud Powell, caged in a tuberculosis sanatorium outside Paris?but his words are hard. "All you're supposed to do is lay down the sounds and let the people pick up on them," he says...
...citizen of Munich who found himself stranded outside Bavaria had until recently an easy cure for his Heimweh. All he had to do was pick up a telephone, dial 0811, and listen. Over the wire came a soft, feminine whisper: "München . . . München . . . München." The tape recording made strong men weep and buoyed up thousands of dispirited travelers, but finally the Munich telephone company had to discontinue the service. Homesick Münchners were tying up all the lines...
...place for paintings. Even Scull's eldest son, Jonathan, 15, covers the walls of his room with his own collection of junior-sized examples of Pop that he buys by installments with his allowance. The apartment is so cluttered with art derived from familiar objects that frequently guests pick up an ordinary cigarette box and ask who the artist...
...questions about the employment of needy students were incomplete, and the Committee should have said so. The only data supplied were total wage figures; apparently no records are kept on the financial need of employees. Although at one point the Committee says "there is a slight tendency to pick the best man for the [manager] job, regardless of financial need," it gives no proof of the assertion. As it stands, the statement neither enlightens the community nor is fair to the HSA. If the HSA keeps no records on the need of its agency managers the Committee should have obtained...