Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been out for months, like a hawk's She was the thinnest person I had ever seen: she looked like these pictures from the concentration camps, except that her body was all by itself, and it was green. The skin just flopped ever her bones like the stuff you pick off the top of cocoa with your spoon...
...College of Liberal Arts and the School of Law, however, have discovered just how stubborn Mississippi inertia can be. It was towards the faculty in these two schools that the attacks of 1959 were directed, and it has been the professors of these schools who first began to "pick up the pieces" after the riots and educate the student body to the could facts of desegregation and the judicial process in America...
...fireball hurler, lefty Del Rossi teases his opponents with twisters, change-ups and curves. His pick-off motion surpasses that of many major leaguers...
...Fragments of pottery dated it back to around 1200 B.C., the late Bronze Age that Homer wrote about. Bits of planking preserved under the cargo show that the ship was probably built of Syrian wood and in Syria. She must have touched at Cyprus, the ancient copper center, to pick up a ton of copper ingots, stamped with Cypro-Minoan signs. She also carried ingots of tin, probably from Syria, that have long since turned to white oxide. Packed in wicker baskets, are fragments of broken bronze tools, weapons and household utensils. Apparently the ship was a floating factory, turning...
...approve of pickpockets, especially those who pick our own," said the Journal, but "the result represents a consummation devoutly to be wished by influential thinkers of the day." Since Royster's $100 was transferred from one party to another, the editorial reasoned, both the gross national product and the national income showed gains, and such "redistribution of income" is "the whole object of current economic policy." It also helps, added the editorial, if money "can be transferred from corporations and rich folk, who might have a proclivity toward savings, to the hands of those who will inject it more...