Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notion that they can best provide the capital and technicians and equipment needed by less developed nations. It is pointless to proclaim that Asians must beware Soviets bearing gifts, for the gifts look pretty delectable to free, but underveloped countries. The only answer is for the United States to pick up the challenge and demonstrate that dollars and sincerity can at least equal Soviet promises. Since this will be a long contest, Mr. Dulles' acceptance of the principle of long-term aid is especially reassuring...
King's Choice. After the death of Field Marshal Papagos four months ago, King Paul passed over several senior politicians to pick 48-year-old Karamanlis for the premiership. Since then the government's halls have reverberated to his sten torian voice as he drives his subordinates on with exhortation and colorful invective. Impatient of inefficiency, he is apt to call a hapless minister, peremptorily demand action or his resignation. "Any solution is better than no solution," he snaps...
...anti-U.S. campaign (during the Korean war) gave Lo's men an excuse to arrest Chinese doctors, technicians and professionals educated in the West (and therefore suspected counterrevolutionaries) and to pick up servants and drivers who had worked for foreigners. An anti-Christian campaign was conducted under cover of the Communist-backed Three-Self movement, designed to cut the local churches off from the rest of Christendom, but failed when Roman Catholic authorities refused to bend to a rump Catholic Church that the Reds tried to organize. So Lo went ahead arresting missionaries, priests and clergymen as spies...
Marine Lieut. Santee threatened a court fight to regain his amateur standing. Controversy raged on the sports pages. Why pick on Santee, the best the U.S. has for the Olympics? track fans asked. But the argument seemed academic. Even if the A.A.U. reinstates Santee, said the International Olympic Committee's highhanded president, Avery Brundage, Santee will never run in the Olympics. "There is enough evidence on him right now without any further investigation...
Bargain Hunter. In the last seven years Ditisheim, backed by a syndicate, made raids on three other "undervalued" companies-companies whose stock was selling far below book value and where there was a chance to take over and pick up a quiet profit. The raids were only half successful: Ditisheim did not get the companies, but he and his friends picked up a nice piece of change...