Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From this number Professor John M. Bullitt, Quincy's Housemaster, will pick eighty, roughly eleven from each of the other Houses; and these will form the junior-senior segment of next year's Quincy population. "The applications are spread rather evenly over the Houses, and the lowest total is well over twenty; so I have lots of room to maneuver," Bullitt remarks...
...freedom, its economic and political problems have piled so high that King Mohammed V was prompted only last month to remind his people: "It is not going to rain gold and silver. The seeds of independence will not yield their fruit in a day. Our sons and grandsons will pick them." Less poetically, the King confided to a friend: "The French never gave me half as much trouble as my own people...
...Children seven to nine years old, the party press notes, generally like to collect nails and bits of wood and carry them in their pockets. This interest is channeled "into the field of significant labor activity" by sending the children outside the factory for two hours each day "to pick iron, scraps, dig and sift ore, gather wood and collect broken bits of earthenware." Students 14 and 15 years old "do the simple jobs of making molds, preparing materials, taking care of machinery and blowing oxygen." Older teen-agers more molten-steel ladles, refine ore and build the brick linings...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by Kimon Friar. Only a very bold poet would have dared to pick up where Homer left off. Greece's late Nikos Kazantzakis did it in a vast, soaring poem in which high adventure, brutality and erotic appetites are finally subordinated to a search for self-knowledge...
...chaser made of a secret formula of tomato juice, lime juice, orange juice, sugar, salt, pepper, chilies and spices. The couples watch carefully as automatic cash registers whir up the week's purchases in toothpaste, carrots and dehydrated pimento soup - and then they stop by the Laundromat to pick up the washing...