Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Puffing a cigar instead of his customary burnished brown pipe, Dave McDonald marched into the elevator, rode 20 floors to his three-room, $65-a-day suite. He changed into tailored lounging clothes, considered which of two books−Auntie Mame or a condensed edition of Toynbee−to pick up for relaxation. Another bargaining session between the steelworkers' union and the country's three largest steel companies had ended a few minutes before. McDonald, who had been leading the union delegates at the sessions in the Hotel Roosevelt, was anxious to be away from the stress...
...Kefauver, who won their votes by upsetting Stevenson in Minnesota's March primary. And in Kefauver's home state of Tennessee, the state Democratic convention all but ran the Keef out of the ball park by refusing him even a favorite-son endorsement. Most likely to pick up the Tennessee votes: Stevenson...
...between the hours of 1 and 11 p.m. every day. It then makes two copies of the message, keeping one at hand and sending the other via immediate messenger to the dormitory room of the person being called. If you miss the note in your room, you can always pick up the duplicate at Grays...
Last March, negotiations broke down on Makarios' insistence that he should hand-pick the Greek majority in the Provisional Assembly, and on his demand for an amnesty for all Cypriot terrorists. The real issue was control of the island's security. The British feared that a hostile government in command of the island's police and defense services might act to weaken, even make untenable, their huge military base, intended for the protection of British oil interests in the Middle East...
...terrace of Keating Hall. And then the fiesta began. Mayor Wagner opened it by shattering a king-sized earthenware piñata (filled with gifts) with a green-covered baseball bat, and both mayor and cardinal were promptly bowled over in the crush of a crowd to pick up souvenir pieces...