Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble with that approach is that it is often the regulars who pick up the pieces after a disaster; witness the comeback of Richard Nixon, the G.O.P.'s man-in-the-middle after the party's monumental 1964 drubbing. Even if the McCarthyite irregulars were to succeed in wrecking the old party structure in order to build a new one, they might also succeed in guaranteeing an eight-year White House tenancy for Richard Nixon...
Even when Soviet troops in Prague cut off telephone and Teletype communications, TIME'S files got through. Office drivers turned couriers raced to convenient border points to pick up copy from correspondents. In New York, those files were combined with voluminous re ports coming in from TIME'S Washington Bureau for the cover story and other articles written by Howard Muson and David Tinnin, and edited by Jason McManus...
...tents in the jail yard. While the candidates trade charges on whether the convention is open or closed, it is, physically at any rate, the tightest in U.S. history-a kind of Stalag '68. Already the demonstrators have achieved the feat of forcing a major party to pick a candidate for President behind barbed wire, in a charged atmosphere reminiscent of a police state...
STRIKES by public employees make almost everyone unhappy except the strikers themselves-and sometimes even them. When sanitation men refuse to pick up garbage and teachers stay away from their classrooms, the resulting disruptions win little sympathy for their cause. As a result, workers who provide vital public services are turning increasingly to work slowdowns -strikes, of a sort, that do not carry quite the onus of a full-scale walkout. As Anthony D'Avanzo, general chairman of New York City Lodge 886 of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, put it last week, "We don't want...
...London confrontation are shipping revenues of about $192 million a year, which are now shared by the Italian, French, West German, Dutch, Scandinavian and British lines that form the in-group serving trade routes between Europe and Australia. Last year the Russians sent six ships to Australian ports to pick up 146,000 tons of wool destined for the Soviet Union. Bargaining for a bigger piece of the action this time, they have proposed to run 36 round trips a year to Australia. That would be enough to take a third of the entire Australian trade, worth $31 million...