Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many of the children and the elderly passengers were soon dead nevertheless. As dawn broke, the rescue fleet, now swollen to some 20 vessels, looked out on a vast scene of lifeboat debris and bobbing bodies. Despite the calm seas, it was not easy to pick them up. The rafts and lifeboats kept banging into the windward side of the waiting merchantmen; hour after hour the arduous task continued, until at last all the living and dead were hauled aboard. On the Salta, which picked up 478 people from the sea, cognac and blankets were passed out to the shivering...
...state's cut: $2,300,000). Lounging behind a protective wire screen, the fans sip daiquiris and cheer wildly for players whose names they cannot pronounce. "Come on, Choo Choo!" they yell to Churruca, an acrobatic Basque whose specialty is running straight up a side wall to pick off a pelota 15 ft. above the floor. "Attababy, Orby!" they scream to Orbea, who can slam the ball into the front wall so accurately that it will hit a handkerchief halfway back down the court on the rebound...
...before every night's matches -so that they cannot be approached by gamblers. But there are compensations: top players get $20,000 a season, and late Saturday night, when the week's work is over, the stage-door Jeanies cluster around. "All you have to do is pick up a cesta" grins one player, "and the women will come...
...results of the Ford grants as is Balanchine: he is founder and director of the school and general director of the ballet company. Kirstein always intended the school to be national. "That has been my dream for 30 years," he says. Now, with its munificent grant, the school can pick and choose among the best students. "This almost approaches the Soviet system, which subsidizes not only the student but the student's family," says Kirstein. "It won't produce instant ballet, but it will give the ballet stability in which to develop...
...says, "which is living a normal life, and not the kind of stupid life most actors lead. I can't imagine not acting, but I'm in a very happy position. I can wait here in the country with the donkeys and the corgis, and pick and choose. I plan to do as I am doing, develop my little property, and have a little harem. Not a full-time harem, of course. That would be troublesome...