Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glimpse of the Nazi nightmare. SS Lieut. General Gottlob Berger, 52, one of the few men Himmler ever called by his first name (translated it means "Praise God"), had set up the dreaded SS Sonderkommando units. One Sonderkom-mando, one of his own officers had testified, used to pick out the prettiest Jewish girls. "They stripped them," he recounted, "injecting them with strychnine, and watched them die." The bodies, said the witness, were then boiled into soap. "Praise God" got 25 years...
...Bingham '16 is in no rush to hire someone to replace Bill Barclay, who was notified just before vacation that his contract will not be renewed when it expires early in July. "The season doesn't start until next winter," Bingham points out. "I'm in no rush to pick a new coach...
...that the lens had shattered. "Tell me if it's broken, Jimmy," he keep saying as trainer Jimmy Cox mopped the eye with wet towels. He found out 20 minutes later on the emergency operation table at Massachusetts General Eye and Ear Infirmary. It took surgeons two hours to pick particles of plastic out of Busch's left eye--and save his sight...
...flying wind tunnel. Its big advantage is that its rockets, which produce a thrust of 6,000 Ibs., are not weakened, like "air-breathing" engines, by high speed or high altitude. The X-1 can whip up to where the air is thin and still have power to pick up speed as long as the fuel lasts...
...Tell Me. In Atlanta, when Holdup Victim D. M. Strickland got so jittery that he could not identify his assailants, police put Strickland in the lineup, had the two confessed gunmen pick him from the group...