Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been hearing that talk for 15 years.' retorted one. 'I've been in the fields all summer and what did I get for it? My children will be going to school soon, and they have no shoes or clothes. We go to pick mushrooms because we can sell them at the store and bring in a kopek or two at home.' Added another woman sarcastically. 'We don't have to eat at all. I suppose. This is my second year without a cow and it's been pretty...
...salesclerks (at wages ranging from $120 to $150 per month) and take to the streets at night and remain largely unknown even to the police. At week's end in Paris, women were flocking to movie theaters to watch absorbedly a new documentary film on prostitution and, perhaps, pick up a few pointers...
...channel or station the set is tuned to. Every half hour, if the set is on, the Recordimeter briskly rouses the absorbed or snoring viewer by flashing a white light behind the picture tube. Radio listeners are alerted by a buzzer. At this signal, the viewer is supposed to pick up his Audilog, a soft-backed book with a page for each day's viewing, and record the time, the channel he is watching, and the channel changes he has made. The A-R family is rewarded with $1 a week for allowing itself to be called to work...
Docile Shareholders. Many companies, of course, hold annual meetings-but with a difference. French companies go out of their way to keep shareholders away, often hold meetings in awkward places or pick a time when nobody wants to come, such as the day before Bastille Day. Britain's carmaking Jaguar recently whizzed through an annual meeting in just nine minutes. Docile shareholders often do not bother to attend meetings, and proxy fights are rare indeed...
...think of buying a home or a car until you have $3,000 to $5,000 safely put away. If you spend money you don't have it . . . Make it your business to go to church. Some men bring their families to church and make it their business to pick them up afterwards. Now that's good, even if they go have a drink in the meanwhile...