Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pick out the item which violates a positive rule or characteristic of the other five: adjacent, conform, deprive, liken, oblivious, prior...
...last, seemed to. be interested in stability. The only C.I.O. leader who could be unhappy about it was Boss Phil Murray. His steelworkers, tied to a contract which forbade a strike, had got nothing (TIME, May 3, 17). But there was some wistful talk that the steelmakers might pick up the Detroit cue. The prospects for a peaceful labor summer in big industry looked almost rosy...
...Classics. In the last 100 years, the 15,000 fatherless boys who have gone through the "Hum" (campus corruption for home) have turned out to be everything from mechanics to insurance-company presidents. Girard has a "double curriculum." Every "newbie" (new boy) must try ten different trades, and then pick his favorite. Girard also teaches the standard grammar and high-school subjects, except for Latin and Greek, which Stephen Girard considered a waste of time...
Today's wrestlers are conscientious showmen who often allow the audience to pick the "hero" and the "villain" after the show begins. They engage in preliminary cuffing and hair-pulling while they "feel out the house" to see what happy ending is desired. One prominent promoter explained last week: "You never know beforehand when you're gonna see a lousy prizefight. In wrestling, we give you guaranteed entertainment...
Sketchy as the book is, drained of the color that made the Little Flower an endearing and irritating one-man kaleidoscope, it discloses a passion for public service. Some of his famed fractiousness comes through here, and so does his standard of political morality. He was willing to pick up flophouse votes with free coffee and doughnuts, but not willing to accept Hearst's offer to get him nominated for New York Supreme Court judge...