Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evers had his eye squarely on the elections. "We didn't do what we hoped," he allowed, "but we did all right." Negro leaders this week will hold a strategy meeting to concentrate their support for local candidates and size up the race for Governor. "We will pick a candidate," said Evers. "But we're not gonna...
...present known range of the brown recluse extends from Wisconsin to Texas, and from the Carolinas to Colorado. Because of its penchant for hiding in bundles of bedding or clothing, health officials fear that vacationers may pick up the brown recluse in the infested areas and carry it to their homes in the rest of the country...
...skipper, as Mosbacher proved in 1957, when-after clinching his eighth straight championship-he took on Bermuda's best in a two-out-of-three match series for the Prince of Wales Trophy. Rules of the match specified that neither crew could sail its own boat. Given their pick of U.S. boats, they unhesitatingly chose Susan, hoping to annoy Bus. He merely shrugged, closed his eyes, pointed-and sailed whatever boat it was (he does not even remember) to two straight victories...
...Pick Your Pit." Robens' resignation, if it goes through as expected, will mark the end of a relatively bright era in one of Britain's most beclouded industries. A loud Lancashire socialist with a promising future in the Labor Party when Tory Macmillan chose him for the chairmanship, Alf Robens took the job only, or so he said, because he did not want it to go to "Lord Montgomery or someone like that." For all his socialist background, Robens was made a baron in 1961, and soon showed a gifted eye for profit. By closing down unprofitable collieries...
...because the government's deflationary "squeeze" has postponed a needed price increase, partly because a slow drift of workers away from the mines has caused a dip in production. Hoping to encourage remaining workers to move to more productive mines, Robens has begun an imaginative all-expense-paid "pick-your-pit" program. He sneers at competition from other fuels, recently dismissed the promise of North Sea gas as merely "an old flame tarted up in a miniburner." Such bravado delights Britons, even if few believe the lord's prediction that, with future economies, coal, which supplied...