Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backed city manager John J. Curry '19 and uphold CCA school committee policies. Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, unofficial spokesman for the CCA group, said yesterday that "any of the five independents might be acceptable, but the CCA will make sure that he's the man we want before we pick...
...determination to pick the new mayor is due largely to the fact that the mayor is also chairman of the School Committee. This group is now evenly divided between the CCA-endorsed members and independents, so that the mayor will have the deciding vote. The association is also anxious to have a mayor who favors urban renewal...
...year his uncle made Bill eat and pick things up with his left hand; once when he fell asleep clutching a half-eaten turkey drumstick in his right fist, Uncle Bob switched the bone to Billy's left hand so that he would wake up with everything right...
...pictures will seldom be good, and they will seldom last long. If the foreign station has a different line image (Britain uses 405 lines, the U.S. 525 lines), its picture will be a meaningless pattern of distorting interferences. U.S. viewers in some cases can adjust their sets to pick up the foreign picture, but then they will not get U.S. pictures...
...year. Flint has an automobile for every 2.8 persons, v. a nationwide average of one for every 3.7. Nearly 80% of the residents own their own homes, and 80% of the homes have television (even though 15-or 20-ft. aerials must be stuck on rooftops to pick up Detroit). Spending is heavy, but savings accounts are going up too. "People have got money," says President E. S. Mulholland of Flint's largest department store. "They feel safe...