Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hidden Persuader. In Denver, on trial for possession of burglary tools (a sledge hammer concealed under his jacket), James H. Fielder won acquittal when he explained: "I carry this for protection in case somebody tries to pick a fight with...
Schlesinger is also on the committee of five to pick a successor for President Jordan, and his special interest at the moment is the Women's Archives at Radcliffe where he is Chairman of the Advisory Board...
There have been a huge number of missed signs, pick-offs, throws-to-the-wrong-base, and so forth. And the team has been distressingly poor at base-running and bunting. These things may seem like details; but baseball is, to a large degree, a game of details...
...searching in the unlikeliest places on the unlikeliest leads. A miner in California, Edward Doheny, sniffed oil when he spotted an ice wagon loaded with tar jolting along a Los Angeles street before the century's turn; he rustled up another prospecting pal, Charles Canfield, and with pick and shovel they dug a 4-ft. by 6-ft. shaft 165 ft. down into the nearby tar pits, struck a field that was to flow more than 70 million bbl., lead to the discovery of another 6 billion bbl. in the San Joaquin valley and the production of hundreds...
Yale is losing more than the varsity, and perhaps not picking up as much. At any rate, next May's Yale match will no doubt once again decide the Eastern and Big Three championships, and Barnaby and his men hope to pick those crowns back up again. They should have a fine chance of doing...