Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...street, he would say imploringly, "I'm still waiting for an answer. When will you marry me?" At first, she ignored him; then she snapped: "Stupid! Imbecile!" To her friends she said: "I admit he's a good catch for some girl, but why does he pick on me? He's not my type...
...discover which one is coming, he searches the offensive players for telltale clues. "If the center has his weight off the ball and is back on his haunches, it's going to be a pass," says Huff, "because he's getting ready to move back fast and pick up the red-dogging linebackers. If the guards have their weight off their hands, it's a run around end. They're already thinking about pulling out and leading the play...
...investigations widened and public suspicion grew, two arguments in defense of TV and allied entertainment fields, kicked up by volunteers and TV's own flashy flacks, were heard again and again: 1) plugs, payola and all that jazz have been around for a long time; 2) why pick on TV when other businesses are corrupt, too? The case was typically put last week by Newscaster Jacques Legoff of Detroit's WJBK-TV (one of the five TV stations owned by the Storer Broadcasting Co.). Legoff, who had not reported the first quiz scandal stories until three days after...
...Sports Information, Baaron Pittenger, endeared himself forever to Stadium press box inhabitants at half-time in the season's first encounter, when he distributed menus giving the writers a choice of six delicacies for their mid-game snack. Instead of the legendary soggy doughnuts, the sportswriters now had their pick of pizza, ham and cheese, and four other selections. This thoroughness in the relatively unimportant area of refreshments reflects the diligence with which Pittenger has attacked the monstrous problem of press relations and dispensation of information...
...least one day a week, Revson dons a white coat and roams through the company's laboratories, where Revlon this year is spending $1.1 million on research, more than any other cosmetics firm. His eye is so sharp that he can pick out the one imperfect lipstick on an assembly line of hundreds, his standards so high that he has been known to throw away $1,000,000 worth of lipstick because its shade was just a little...