Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Exceptional Bravery." On each of four previous days, two moving vans and a crew of six workers had arrived early at the White House to pick up the Kennedy family's personal possessions. Much was trucked off to storage until Jackie decides on a permanent home, the rest to the Harriman house. John F. Kennedy's papers were also being packed and crated. Presumably his personal files and correspondence would go with Jackie, his official presidential papers warehoused until completion of the Kennedy Memorial Library in Boston...
...prove he had civilian support somewhere, Ne Win had army trucks pick up some 20,000 workers for a "spontaneous" rally in Rangoon. At that point the students went into action, led an assault on the rally, throwing stones, ripping up placards and setting one army truck afire to shouts of, "We don't want this government!" When Ne Win ordered the closing down of Rangoon university last week, the students, led by leftist agitators, barricaded the gates and staged a sit-in. Bulldozers ordered out to smash the barricades were beaten back with hurled stones, and fire hoses...
...currently is affable Gaston Monnerville, 66, a Negro lawyer from French Guiana and an avowed opponent of De Gaulle's regime, which he describes as "enlightened Bonapartism."* Within 35 days of the President's death, according to the constitution, new elections would have to be held to pick a successor...
Cambridge school committeeman Anthony Galluccio '39, defeated in a bid for a fifth term Nov. 5, failed to pick up any additional votes in a recount completed Tuesday night...
...scientists described the aerial mapping techniques that were used with great success to pick relatively solid sites for DEW line stations. Norwegian engineers explained how simple insulation prevents frost-heaving beneath their rail lines. Refrigerated well linings were described as an approach to keeping permafrost in place, but refrigerated building foundations, widely heralded a few years back, were rejected as too expensive to be practical...