Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friendly to Russia and open to diplomatic and commercial intercourse with the West. In practice, this meant a provisional government formed around the London government and including leaders from among the anti-Nazi Polish patriots. Such a government would preside over free Polish elections in which the Poles would pick their own postwar leaders...
...many a schoolboy, teacher and clubwoman was hearing a far different story: Chiang's wife was an arrogant creature who slept on silk sheets, while Chiang himself was corrupt and stupid; he stubbornly blocked the path to China's progress, and went out of his way to pick fights with those persecuted heroes of agrarian reform, the Chinese Communists. It was to the mutual disaster of both Chiang and the U.S. that in the critical years following World War II the Communist-line distortions of the second picture were smearily reflected in the smart talk of sophisticates...
...despite this surprising show of disloyalty the Yale students called to turn their handkerchiefs on Gundelfinger in 1924 Yale staged a convention to pick a presidential nominee--and Gundelfinger was high on the list of early candidates...
Claiming that "we could wipe the field with you Harvards, if given the opportunity," Dartmouth captain Bob Woodberry has asked the Crimson to "pick a date, any damn date you want...
...Other Side. Then the bankers heard an opposite view. George C. Smith, economist for the F. W. Dodge Corp., said that the low rate of new-family formation reflects the Depression's low birth rate, predicted that the new-family-formation rate will soon pick up and keep the demand for new housing at upwards 1,000,000 yearly for the next five years. Said Smith: "I would expect to find some local problems, some temporary gluts and vacancies . . . But I don't believe, and I can't find any other construction economist who believes, that...