Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organization of highly trained, specialized men and women, working more and more closely with Government agencies. He approves of this pattern. Says he: "I can see the private agencies in the role of developing pilot programs and experimentation. Then, if the experiments prove successful, the Government would pick them up as it has done in the rehabilitation of the handicapped...
...casein and tempera paintings on rice paper were snapped up by collectors. He was honored with a two-month-long exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum this year, will have a one-man show next fall in London. Seattle Museum President-Director Richard E. Fuller, asked to pick two favorite paintings from his area for Stanford University's "Fresh Paint-1958" (now on show), chose a Horiuchi, and said: "Only a man versed in the beautiful calligraphic writing of the Orient on the one hand, and well grounded in the values and methods of Occidental 20th century painting...
...East Side silk-stocking 17th Congressional District was badly snagged the last two times out by big Democratic protest votes and near defeat, announced that he would not run for a seventh term. Coudert's withdrawal signaled a bloody primary and a bloodier general election to pick a successor. ¶ Two-term Republican Senator Irving McNeil Ives, 62, one of the Senate handful of steady Eisenhower Republicans, announced that poor health (high blood pressure) bars him from seeking a third term this autumn, † Ives's retirement paved the way for the G.O.P. to break a growing deadlock...
...miles southeast of Paris. But these were expectant sounds that reverberated in the imagination of Colombey's first citizen, a towering man of 67 with an equine face and the stiff, awkward movements of a French career soldier. And they were sounds that drove him at last to pick up the telephone, an instrument he dislikes, and summon an aide from Paris to receive a typically laconic statement: "For twelve years France, at grips with problems too harsh for the regime of political parties, has pursued a disastrous course . . . Today, in the face of the troubles that again engulf...
Rover. In Flint, Mich., detectives claimed in court that former Dogcatcher Harry Wilson made a practice of catching dogs in Michigan and hauling them off for sale in Mississippi, where he would pick up more dogs to sell when he returned to Michigan...