Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unemployment problem since Caplin with his little guillotine." The Colony has cut ten men from its 100-man staff; Maud Chez Elle has cut its staff from 40 to 34 to help compensate for a close to 50% drop in business. "If business doesn't pick up soon," says Vincent Sardi Jr.. owner of Manhattan's Sardi's and Sardi's East, "all of us will be in real trouble...
Paul was no classical author, writing by hand or dictating and correcting his manuscripts like a Plato or Plutarch, but a busy missionary bishop employing the amanuenses that he could pick up in the cities where he wrote his Epistles. Some were first-class, using classical Greek, balancing every sentence with the copious use of kais. Others were third-rate and knew only the koine kais, which have as much meaning as our colloquial ands. So kais are the most unreliable "figures" to pour into a computer...
...across the hemisphere carrying propaganda, blueprints for revolt, and their share of the estimated $120 million annually that goes for Latin American subversion. When a Vang Airlines 707 jet crashed near Lima last November, ten Cubans were on the plane, and Castro rushed a 27-man delegation to pick up the pieces. But the Peruvians collected the evidence first, including documents reportedly detailing guerrilla activities in Brazil. Last week a Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano DC-6B crashed in the Andes on a flight from Arica. Chile, to La Paz, Bolivia...
Sparks used a rigid, take-a-boy-like-me standard to pick his singers. "You get so many nuts in folk music," he says, "that when I chose our people, I made it a point to shy away from questionable people. I looked for the all-American boy or girl who had no political complaints and no sexual problems anybody would be interested in." To assemble his troupe he ran through 29 singers, including a few who resigned for technical reasons-such as the inability to read music...
...France's Rhône-Poulenc laboratories, is the first effective trichomonacide taken by mouth; it gets into the bloodstream and can track down the parasites in internal glands where some of them hide. For this reason, it is also the first useful drug for men, who often pick up the parasites from their wives and may suffer urethritis or prostatitis...