Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something of a shock to pick up a slim book of 132 catalog-card size pages and find the volume entitled The Art of Loving. Such a title might be appropriate for a collection of poetry or perhaps some parables, but it is hardly a humble beginning for an essay. One has the strange sensation of being party to a Marlboro book sale where the theory of Yoga and the occult sciences of the Orient are neatly passed along in a hundred pages. This sense of condensation and over-simplification is furthered by the division of The Art of Loving...
...experience. That Wagner cut crime by 21 percent in New York City is not a recommendation for the Armed Services Committee, but Wagner proved himself equally adept in modernizing the city government, improving education and hospital facilities, and directing slum clearance. He has shown a Roosevelt-like ability to pick excellent advisers and to use advice effectively...
...easy spiral for somebody to catch. It hits the ground on its side, or an end, with a forward roll. If anybody's there, it's hard to pick up. If nobody's there, it keeps going," explains Indian Coach, Bob Blackman...
...military men who will spend the International Geophysical Year on Operation Deep Freeze II in the Antarctic. Navy Chaplain John E. Zoller, who collected the magazines, explained that his responsibility on the 18-month expedition will be morale, and reading material will be his best aid. "The opportunity to pick up TIME, read it and look at the pictures will be a touch of America that cannot be obtained in any other way," said Chaplain Zoller...
...more swift, more sure in the pursuit than Lieut. Armand de la Verne (Gerard Philipe) of the 33rd Dragoons. Cocksure he was, and one day he laid a bet he could have any woman in town within a month-put their names in a hat and take your pick...