Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wastebasket and enthusiastically overturned it. A clerk spoke sharply to her and she started to scream. Baby Robbie thereupon joined in lustily. At last, after 4½ hours, the harried tax collector surrendered. Margaret Lockwood was told that her husband's check had been released, and she could pick it up at his office. Bob Lockwood would have another chance to talk over the claims against him; even if back taxes were actually due, they could be paid in small installments. And across the U.S., tax collectors braced themselves for a tide of determined wives-with children...
...life today includes a strike every couple of years, and they save for it." Many strikers own houses, are borrowing against them instead of carving into their savings. In some steel towns, only 25% of the strikers applied for free surplus food, and only half of those bothered to pick up their allotments. But other workers are hurting, lining up for state unemployment aid, living off their wives' jobs. Only a handful get emergency help from the United Steelworkers; the union has no national strike war chest. Despite their handicaps, the workers are also determined to see the strike...
...would like to see him go in the little town where I was reared [Abilene, Kans.] and pick up the evidence-and of course there are some still alive [who remember] when I was there, you know-and let them tell him the story of how hard I worked . . . He said in one of his conversations to Mr. Nixon: 'What do you know about work? You never worked.' Well, I can show him the evidence that...
...Electric Floor Washer. A lightweight electric floor washer that wet-scrubs floors and vacuum-dries them will be put on sale next month by the Hoover Co., North Canton, Ohio. Its motor creates a suction to pick up dirty water after the floor is scrubbed by nylon brushes. Price...
...taboo. Fortnight ago. prowling La Guardia-style about the streets of Bangkok in his chauffeur-driven car, Sarit drew up behind an automobile in which a woman sat eating fruit and throwing the peels out the window. The Premier characteristically took her license-plate number, ordered the police to pick her up and fine her 100 bahts ($5) for littering...