Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some distance away toward the south, in a field near Limoges, Hunters Louis Autef and Jean Riffort bowled over a rabbit with a long shot. As Autef stooped to pick up the beast, the rabbit kicked the trigger of his shot gun and sent a load of shot hurtling into the shoulder of Hunter Riffort. The hunter was rushed to a doctor. The rabbit hopped...
Last month, Rita came back. When her husband asked her if she would like to fly to Baie Comeau to pick up a box of jewelry she trustingly agreed. Albert bought her ticket, took her to the airport, where he paid 50? for a $10,000 air-travel insurance policy, naming himself as beneficiary. Meanwhile, according to the Mounties, Mrs. Pitre, who admitted she had bought two sticks of dynamite for Guay, arrived with the package...
Barber uses the phoned reports to bridge the switch-overs from one "live" broadcast to another. By rotating in quick two-minute jumps, he can pick his spots so that a game comes on the air when a touchdown is imminent. It all adds up, says Barber, "to a panoramic view of the American football scene." Further, the Roundup eliminates the endless time-outs and the dull halftime period...
Earth Waves. But underwater bombs and bombs exploded on a tower above ground smack the earth hard, as high airbursts do not. Seismic (earthquake) waves, shooting off in all directions, can be picked up at tremendous distances. Earth waves from Test Baker were detected by many seismographs on the U.S. Pacific coast, 4,300 miles away. Even the Alamogordo bomb, exploded on a loo-ft. tower, sent out earth waves that were picked up at Tinemaha, Calif., 710 miles away. Specially sensitive seismographs, ringed around the U.S.S.R., could pick up earth waves from a bomb exploded underwater or reasonably near...
Fancy Knots. When the shooting war was over, Franks ("the greatest civilian discovery of the war") could have been head of Britain's Steel Board or had his pick of many glittering big business jobs. He turned them all down to go back to Oxford as provost of his old college. But the following year, in 1947, when a stricken and bankrupt Europe was feverishly fingering the hope just held out by the Marshall Plan, Ernie Bevin, now Foreign Minister, called Franks from his cloister to head the British delegation to the 16-nation Paris conference...