Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coach can tell stories about how certain alumni "happen" to offer this same Touchdown Jones a very well-paying summer job for perhaps minding his son, if he should "Happen" to pick the right school. And the stories of alumni who tour the backwoods for players are numerous, just as they are about coaches giving visiting athletes special tours around the college athletic field...
Fumbles also spoiled a last-minute attempt to score by both Kirkland and Adams. Kirkland marched from mid-field to the 15-yard line, where the quarterback fumbled on a sneak pass, which Adams recovered, but fumbled after two tries. A recovery and another fumble by Kirkland let Adams pick up the ball on the 20 with no time remaining...
...could gallop along a picket fence and pick off every sun-basking lizard with a pistol. "I'm the champ," said he. and jovially charmed nearly everyone he met. Seven early years of work and study in Philadelphia-he never stopped rooting for the Phillies-gave him close U.S. ties. President Eisenhower, who sent his own surgeon. Major General Leonard D. Heaton, to try to save Tacho, noted in a message of condolence that Somoza "emphasized, both publicly and privately, his friendship for the United States...
...catch the impulse buyers, many makers have started setting these eyecatching albums on racks in supermarkets and variety stores, hoping that the housewife who hears a song over the air just before she goes out to shop will pick it up along with the groceries. An average record rack in a supermart grosses about $50 to $75 a week...
...come when Aline Bernstein, in Three Bine Suits, gave her version of their love affair. Sounding exactly like one of his own victims, Tom wrote her a note complaining that the book would "get pawed over and whispered about by wretched, verminous little people who want to poke around, pick out identities and gloat over . . . scandalous morsels...