Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indemnitv promised him. Without compensation how could he buy a new pasture? His tiny wife Marguerite railed that it was all his fault in the first place. When the strangers came from Paris he had let them dig holes in the fields. She had seen Lucien also with a pick in hand. "What are you doing," she had called shrewishly, "looking for your fortune?" "Maybe," grinned Lucien. But the strangers never refilled the holes as promised. Instead, they dug more, installed pumps, built little railways, chased off the cows...
Some of his assistants are working with microwaves, trying to pick out one special wiggle from thousands of other wiggles. In one experiment, they hitched a microwave to a color of light, and singled it out that...
Aside from actual playing experience the squad will pick up during vacation. Callahan doesn't rate the Bermuda week very highly. His main interest is building up the Rugby Club to its prewar strength, when it won the Eastern Rugby Union trophy cup three years...
...Pinch in Time." An American riding in a Swiss railway carriage engages in conversation with the young lady seated opposite him. He hopes the stale cigar smoke left in the compartment by a previous passenger will not offend her. She mentions her disgust for men who try to pick her up; the American says nothing, but lights a discarded cigar butt and puffs furiously in her face. That's all there is to it; neat, and very effective...
This view, says Eliot, is not much help to culture. Hand-picked "elites" (who is going to pick them? he asks) inevitably become specialists-one-track groups who only get together "like committees." Even if they could be chosen and made to shake down together, how would they carry out the important duty of passing on their cultural values to a succeeding generation...