Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps quibbling to pick at "Tragic Hunt" in the face of our Hollywood output: it is only the recent Italian standard of excellence that justifies this. At any rate, it shouldn't be missed by the connoisseur...
Button, the only person ever to receive an honorary "H" while a member of the freshman class, returned from France last month after successfully defending his world title against the pick of European contenders...
Take Your Pick. And lastly, it passed two pieces of legislation which would allow Hummon to succeed himself. With this and the unit-voting extension, Hummon could take his pick: he could either continue as governor or take his political ambitions to the U.S. Senate; some said he was narrowing his eyes speculatively at Georgia's senior Senator Walter George, whose term...
...Pegler found a silver lining. "We have had two salutary killings within the last year," Pegler wrote, in which strikebreakers were acquitted of murder charges after shooting two pickets. Said he, with satisfaction: "[Each] got his picket . . . Henceforth, the good citizen under such attack . . . will have a right to pick a picket and shoot him in the head...
...pension." Major Maddison, leading a rash reconnaissance into disastrous ambush, is shot by one of his own infuriated men. Colonel Pothecary's turn comes too. "[He] rose to his feet . . . ignoring the bullets that squealed around him . . . They saw him stoop, pick a white flower from a hedgerow and fasten it, without haste, in his lapel. Everywhere in the meadow men rose and moved forward with him." And so the bridge is taken, and so the Colonel dies, and so the battalion comes to "The Hill," a point beyond Caen, where the Germans had held long and stubbornly...