Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students in the fields of English, Classics, and Romance Languages were found most likely to pick courses within their own fields. English students in the top half of their class were found to take 50 per cent of their courses in English, while the percentages for Classics and Romance Languages were 49 and 46, respectively...
...Harrison ("Pete") Williams Jr. And in West Virginia, Republican Mary Elkins, 53, wife of onetime (1919-25) Senator Davis Elkins, has an advantage over most House candidates in her race against Democratic Incumbent Harley Staggers, 49. A Washington socialite with a West Virginia address, Mrs. Elkins has only to pick up her telephone to bring into the district such leading Republicans as Vice President Nixon, Seriate Republican Leader William Knowland and Secretary of Labor James Mitchell...
When Ike moved on to his first infantry posts and training schools during World War I he began to pick up a reputation as a disciplinarian. Around the age when he courted and married Mamie Geneva Doud, a slender girl with violet eyes (the Douds' maid was provoked one day when "Mr. I-Something" kept calling every 15 minutes), he was finding a new confidence that led him on to command, at 27, the tank training center at Camp Colt, Pa. But soon after Christmas 1920 their first child, Doud Dwight ("Icky"), died of scarlet fever when...
...Picking the Bones. Jordan has been racked by political instability ever since her anti-Baghdad Pact riots of 1955 and the expulsion of Britain's famed Soldier Glubb Pasha last March. "Jordan," said one Western observer not long ago, "is dying, and there are three vultures waiting to pick her bones." Hovering closest of all was Israel, which four times in the last month has sent regular army units smashing into Jordan on bloody "retaliatory raids" whose only logical purpose seemed to be to hasten Jordan's disintegration...
...play revealed all too well a consistent Crimson weakness throughout the contest. On punts and on kick-offs, the team moved downfield at half-speed, giving the Dartmouth runners plenty of time to find the holes and to pick up extra yardage. On one occasion, Stahura, after punting the ball, actually made the tackle as well...