Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supplied food. He may roam the local area, but must report daily to the district commissioner and must remain inside his quarters from sunset to dawn. He may receive out-of-town visitors only with permission of the Nairobi government. He will have a radio-but one that cannot pick up Moscow or Cairo. Reading material is forbidden him. Burning Spear may never address a meeting or join any organization. Though he is a spent man, his power to arouse his fellow blacks is still respected by the British, who are taking no chances...
Rambling on to the 12-2 shellacking the varsity received at the hands of Springfield Tuesday, Shepard noted that, "Springfield is perennially one of the three or four best teams in New England." He felt that the varsity has a good chance to pick up an important win this afternoon, if the Pennsylvania coach does not start his number one hurler, righthander Dave Weed. Otherwise, he feels the Quakers will hold a slight edge...
...were to come true, Bender speculates various ways of narrowing down the field, each of them equally alarming. Harvard might decide to become a "New England College", concentrating its attention on the better prep schools and high schools, "letting Exeter do our geographical distribution for us." Or it could pick fifty reliable secondary schools throughout the country to supply students. Or it could ignore such things as "character" and "initiative" completely, sorting applications in an IBM machine in order to fill predetermined places...
...lower school which starts with the first grade. "Once we accept a boy, we're going to do our darndest to get him through," Headmaster Edwin H.B. Pratt '36 says. "At the same time, when you have a lot of applicants later on, the temptation is to pick the best of the new lot and discard the though nut whom you already have on your hands...
...play (a good pair of leather gloves costs only $5), the sport now claims some 5,500,000 participants. "When you're young, you play singles and run and sweat," says one handballing Chicago doctor. "Later you take up doubles, and when you're 70, you pick a strong partner and just putter around...