Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before the new offensive, and towns like Aba, Owerri and Umuahia were choked with the homeless, the destitute and the starving. Yet somehow the Biafrans continued to hold on against superior forces and firepower, training with sticks, fighting back with the motley array of weapons they have managed to pick up from European arms markets in recent months. They fared less well on another front: there was still no agreement on relief measures for starving Biafrans. As a result, hundreds, perhaps thousands died every day, and their plight reached even into the U.S. presidential campaign. Senator Eugene McCarthy charged that...
...everywhere people ask: Who's going to win? What will Gov. Rhodes do with his Ohio delegation? Who will the winner pick for his Vice Presidential candidate? Does Nixon really have it sewed up on the first ballot...
...cost package tours to no fewer than 97 vacation spots. The minimum price will be $89.60 for a 14-day trip from London to Mallorca and back, including lodging, meals and free information that can be gained from Cook's expert agency. Cook's expects to pick up 250,000 to 300,000 customers for such inclusive tours...
...pretty good." The joke, see, is that Stewart is really Martin's square-shootin' brother, and the hangman bit is a ruse to spring Dino and the boys. The trick clicks, and the gang gallops off into the bandolero (bandit) country of Mexico. On the way they pick up a shapely senorita (Raquel Welch) as a hostage...
...live as neighbors, idle because of Christine's income from the company, money she dispenses (a) to keep Chris a dutiful husband and (b) to maintain Paul's friendship which she hopes will result in his selling the rights to his name. When the film opens. Paul and Chris pick up a girl; they take her to a lonely park and are attacked by a gang who rape and kill the girl, leaving Paul in a state of shock requiring intensive therapy (seventeen shock treatments) before he can return to his opulent, if tense, domestic menage...