Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, class-wide elections would pick Smoker and Jubilee Committees whose chairmen would join the executive "cabinet" of the Union Committee. The 12-man cabinet would serve as a core group to the bulky Union Committee...
...promoted the Amir to lieutenant general in Pakistan's army. It was the Amir's turn to be gracious. As a climax to his fabulous shindig, he announced the first popular reform in the state's history: a 25-member state assembly. The Amir would pick nine members, leaving 16 to be chosen by a complicated system of indirect election...
Tired of waiting for lagging sales to pick up by themselves, more & more manufacturers and retailers were prodding them last week in an old-fashioned way: they were cutting prices...
...Luxury Liner. Not up to the usual . . . but it brought them in out of the freezing rain, so why should I pick...
...Orchestra faithfully pledged through the first three movements. There were occasional groans from the audience when one of the brass players (hired specially to meet the requirements of Mahler's bloated score) went berserk. But starting with Nan Mcrriman's contralto solo in the fourth movement, things began to pick up, and by the time the Finale came along, everyone had forgotten the preceding movements...