Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nasser began organizing the year of Abdin. "I watched the officers who came through the schools. I'd get them talking in groups. Then I'd pick the best man in the group and talk to him in private." He married the daughter of a respectable carpet merchant, lived a quiet life. He did not look like a conspirator. Appointed to the staff college, he ran a cribbing service for those who wanted to pass examinations for staff jobs. Says he: "They were obligated to us." Looking around for a nominal leader who would inspire respect, he found...
...gunpoint when he attempted to take pictures of a Moscow church "He poked a gun about a foot from my face." Holt said "and it was cocked, and he shouted You're uncultured, you're uncultured.'" Holt couldn't let a chance like that to pick up a few votes go by. "I sure am " he said he replied...
...Homer E. Newell of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory told a Brussels geographical conference last week. The satelites will probably weigh less than 100 lbs., but even if they weigh only 10 Ibs they will be trackable from the earth Any interested party can track them or pick up their radio signals. "The satellites will appear in their orbits," said Dr. Newell "as a gift package from the U.S. Department of Defense...
...Falling into the trap, the G.I., like as not, would tell his room number. After that, it was nothing for Jean-Louis to pose as the G.I. over a telephone and order a room clerk to turn over his suitcases to a French friend, who would shortly call to pick them up. Jean-Louis would then collect the suitcases, drive to the river and dump them in. It pleased him to watch them float unopened downstream before sinking...
...rocket sled began in 1910 in Bahia, northern Brazil, where his missionary father was president of the American Baptist College. Eldest of four brothers, Paul (as his family preferred to call him) had a strange boyhood. He learned to speak Portuguese long before he was permitted to pick up English; he was seldom allowed to play with other children, and his closest companion was his parents' Negro servant, a pro boxer from Barbados. When his mother tried to strap the unruly youngster into bed for his afternoon nap, he would shout at the top of his voice...