Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light of such facts it was last week possible to pick the election returns which on Nov. 8 will be significant news...
...defenses of a foreign country. Nevertheless, it must have given the French General Staff an uncomfortable feeling to learn what German ordnance people were up to in Sudetenland last week. A somewhat kindred sensation would be experienced by a householder who has lost his key, watched a burglar pick it up and go off to study it at leisure...
...hostility of the program's audience? Candidate Dewey* last week bought on Station WJZ (Manhattan) 30 minutes of Tuesday evening time, half of which usually goes to the Information Please program. Although he was still talking when his time was up, WJZ cut him off to pick up the second half of Information Please, on which Harpo Marx was a noisily silent guest juror,† By telephone Information Please fans berated NBC for giving part of the program's time to Candidate Dewey...
...clash. Chicago brought a scrappy, courageous team which looked very flashy and tricky for a while, but the eleven was in such poor condition that the latter part of the encounter was distinctly harrowing, and the same early flashiness and trick stuff later on looked very much like a pick-up game...
Soon he sees her coming down the platform. It is easy to pick her out. No mistaking her for someone's secretary. She looks fresh and eager, with her saucy had and sleek fur coat. He watches her face as it searches the crowd anxiously. The expression is too good to miss. After all, this is a foreign city to her. Then she spies him, and Vag smiles a really happy smile. It has been a long, exam-filled week, but now at long last she stands there in front of him. Smoke swirls around them...