Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Small, high-quality microphones that will pick up conversations anywhere in a normal-sized room and carry them-either through undetectable, hairlike wires or radio transmission-to receivers or recorders that may be located in the next room or a car a block or two away...
...Crimson trailed by one goal at the half, but tied it up early in the third period. But then Williams hit holes in the defense to pick up four goals in the third...
...stay at this job much longer," says Herb Brownell, "I will have picked a fight with every friend I ever had outside of Government." His remark is perhaps too exclusive: Brownell's lonely job has required him to pick fights with some friends inside the Government. He tangled with Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who could see nothing illegal about big packers and grocers making a tidy profit by selling cheese to the Government at one support price and buying it back a few days later at a lower price. The Justice Department is suing to recover...
Such synthetic religions, says Gill, "seek to put together from materials that are immediately available religions that are promptly useful . . . The syncretists pick and choose among all the 'truths' they know the ones that check with their own understanding of what will be good for them and for the world. [But] Christians claim that the truth, incarnate, now picks and chooses among them the possibilities for the world's good. The cults try to put truths at the service of men. The church tries to put men at the service of truth . . . Nothing but confusion of counsel...
Died. Rear Admiral Edward Joseph ("Mike") Moran, U.S.N., 63, jut-jawed World War II captain of the light cruiser Boise, who won fame for his part in the 1942 night battle of Cape Esperance, off Guadalcanal (he ordered on contact: "Pick out the biggest one and fire!"), in which half a dozen Japanese warships were sunk in 27 minutes of close-range shelling; in Paris...