Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tackling the hundreds of national problems that confront him with enthusiasm and efficiency. But after the first two or three hours of a long conference, he becomes visibly weary; at the end of a day his performance is admittedly below par. His staff realizes this and works mightily to pick up the load. The President realizes it, too, and has made allowances such as the deliberate cutback in his work load...
...play electronic bingo on the daily show, a viewer had to pick a listed phone number and write the five digits out under the letters BINGO. Then each figure was extended downward consecutively for five rows. If a player picked 7-1091, his bingo card would look like this...
...Gown or Quadrangle, and athletes tend to turn up, according to their inmost natures, either in Tiger Inn, the lair of "the gentlemen jocks," or in Cannon, home of "the sweaty ones." The captain of this year's football team, however, is in Ivy, which always has its pick of the entire class...
...just plain fool. Author Hauser has a sharp eye and sure words for the homeliest of scenes, e.g., "an empty clothesline strung with rain pearls." Her novel is best when her people are worst-sparrow-agile before the flung bird seed of gossip, and vulture-ugly as they pick clean the bones of a reputation or a life in whispers...
...will reach Auschwitz in the end, the disposition crew will be the last to go. Each week a train leaves with its quota of victims. To postpone their fate a week, people are willing to pay huge sums. Women pay with their bodies, and Siegfried Cohn grandly takes his pick. Young Henriques catches on fast. Soon he is spying on the prisoners. He sees his own mother packed aboard, though he does manage to get her "a good seat between the water cask and the cask for excrement." He leads his own former students to their death, carries the girl...