Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ducking the Responsibility. The President's proposals, wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Roscoe Drummond, far from being acclaimed "with enthusiasm and a determination to pick them up and show that the states really want to reverse the tide of political power which flows to Washington, seemed to be about as popular as a stowaway at the captain's ball." Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor George Leader (who is prohibited by law from running for re-election): "I don't think the states are doing a very good job with the things they...
...Vullier kept all visitors away from the quarters of mother Irumu and father Dolo. He fed them both a special vitamin-rich diet of oat porridge with milk and salt, raw onions, carrots and watercress. Every morning a zoo attendant went to the Bois de Vincennes to pick fresh acacia leaves for the expectant okapis. Twice every day a keeper massaged Irumu's teats so that she would not fly into a rage when her infant first tried to suckle...
Without Big Klu to flex his muscles and frighten opposing pitchers, every club in the league picked the Redlegs as roundheeled patsies. They had not figured on Birdie Tebbetts. This season's success is not so much a matter of tactics on the field as it is a triumph of Tebbetts' psychology in the clubhouse. Maybe off the diamond the Redlegs will never learn their manager's supreme self-confidence, the positive faith that no man is his superior; maybe some of them sometimes settle for second best-say, in arguments with their wives...
When he reads bedtime stories to his three button-nosed girls-Susan, 5^, Elizabeth, 4, and Patricia, 2^-Birdie never gets away from the great American game. "Instead of Jack and Jill going up the hill," says Mary, "Birdie will say, 'Jack went out, picked up a bat and hit a home run.' Instead of Peter Rabbit going under the fence into Mr. Whatshisname's garden, he'll say, 'And Peter Rabbit got a base on balls and Mopsy was up next.' Sometimes I pick up the same story and the children...
...really interested in working should find it impossible to get some part-time work, sumer employment officers estimated. But young women and even some highly-talented older people will have more difficulty. There are almost always odd jobs or moving furniture or mowing lawns which fellows can pick up. Girls looking for work, however, must have more than "charm." There is a lot of demand for young women with specific skills, such as typing, comptometer operation, and shorthand. Since such specialized skills are unusual in summer school girls, however, the picture is not bright...