Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since few any longer do, the division is using its airpower to harass the Viet Cong in other novel ways. One is Operation Snatch, which is employed whenever a roving Air Cav chopper spots a suspiciously large group of people in the countryside. The Cavalrymen immediately dive down to pick up a few suspects for questioning, a tactic that discourages the Viet Cong from moving around amid the protective coloration of groups of harvesters or peasants on their way to market...
...unheard in the home office, and many big companies these days go out of their way to make the uprooting process as painless as possible. They not only pay all moving costs, often including temporary hotel quarters in the new town for two months or longer, but frequently pick up the tab for new drapes. Many even buy up an executive's old house if he has difficulty getting the price he wants in a hurry. But even with company backing, the search for a new house is a pins-and-needles operation for the whole family...
Sulfur producers are hard pressed to expand their sources in Texas, the U.S. Gulf Coast and Mexico, where the only minable deposits exist. Last year several companies rushed to pick up land leases in Texas' Pecos County on the strength of a promising 1927 geological survey. Outside Houston, Texas Gulf Sulphur reopened its Old Gulf mine, a relic that the company had worked for 13 years before closing it in 1932 when it was thought to be no longer profitable. Freeport has turned to offshore deposits that were once considered prohibitively expensive. It has one Gulf of Mexico operation...
Pettigrew expects Mrs. Hicks's additional votes to come from the city's Italian districts, where her neighborhood school idea is popular. In the preliminary election most of these votes went to City Councilor Christopher A. Iannella, He also expects her to pick up votes that went to the other heavy losers in the preliminary--candidates whose political complexion resembles hers. "But even giving her most of these votes leaves her with about 45 per cent. She could pick up one or two more percentage points from a larger turnout," he said...
Upperclassmen can pick up an SSS Form 109 to maintain their 2-S deferments from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at Memorial Hall. Every student must bring his Harvard bursar's card, his Selective Service Registration Certificate, a letter addressed to his local draft board requesting defermen, a stamped envelope addressed to his local board, and a ball point...