Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neill play, The Straw, a youthful (1918), three-act romantic tragedy, was presented on NBC's Kraft Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., E.D.T.). It would have been difficult to pick an O'Neill drama that had a better chance of not coming off. It is the unhappy tale of a consumptive Irish girl, who falls in love with a writer at a sanitarium and wastes away when the writer is cured and leaves. The writer returns, and out of compassion gives her one straw of hope for life: the promise of his love. Although O'Neill...
From Manila last week, three Douglas C-118 transports and 18 men of the U.S. Air Force took off on a 57-day, 11,000-mile trip to Geneva, Switzerland. The C-118s had gone all the way from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J. to pick up 192 touring delegates of Moral Re-Armament (only 55 of them Americans) and ferry them slowly around Asia and the Middle East, winding up next September in Geneva...
...Pick, pick, pick - Has someone behind...
...Pick, pick, pick - No, 'tis the souls...
Microphones for use in noisy places, e.g., military aircraft, have always been a headache for acoustic engineers. If placed close in front of the mouth, they pick up a great deal of "ambient" noise, as well as sounds that come from the wearer's breathing. Throat microphones are noisy, too, and not ideally intelligible. Both types can be a nuisance to the wearer and interfere with other equipment...