Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What a gas it was to pick up a copy of your crazy mag and glim Dave Brubeck on the cover [Nov. 8]. At last those of us who dig the modernists won't receive gleepin' stares when we mention Brubeck or Rogers . . . These cats are the wailin'est! Thanks for your flipping recap of the '54 jazz scene...
...owner of a 650-acre plantation on St. John, small (12,200 acres), unspoiled (only one hotel) gem of the Virgin Islands, offered his land as a site for the first U.S. National Park in the Caribbean. Holder of options on about half the island, Conservationist Rockefeller hoped to pick them up, eventually hand over about two-thirds of St. John...
...scared liberal!" he shouted. "The McCarthy issue has reached the stage at which we can no longer afford the luxury of criticism. We must act!" His friend in blue stooped down to pick up the petition, which bad blown away...
Dick Clasby was Harvard's finest all-around football player in the last 18 years, according to Noonan, but he goes back to the late 'thirties to pick the top hockey player, Austin Harding...
...future, the ticket system can work even more smoothly, he continued, if students pick up their filled applications promptly. "Too many forget to pick up their envelopes at the Houses on time and create confusion in our office by coming in while we're processing graduate and alumni requests," he said...