Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pick freshmen without a score card is getting to be no way to run a college. Who are they? What can they do? Are they even college material? Soaring enrollment demands precise answers, and only 12% of U.S. colleges (250) belong to the famed College Entrance Examination Board, which serves mainly renowned Eastern institutions...
When the 24 members of the play committee met last week in the theater to pick the principals, hundreds of Oberammergau's 4,600 people were gathered around a big blackboard outside, where the results of each secret ballot were chalked...
...inevitable, says Economist Paarlberg. They are the price of economic progress. The economy does not grow in a smooth upward curve, but in a series of jumps. It has become so big and dynamic that when one of its major segments slacks off the pace, another segment begins to pick up speed. For these reasons, many economists believe that any future downturns are bound to be milder and briefer than in the past. Furthermore, the economy's built-in stabilizers are becoming steadily more effective. Unemployment funds and pension plans are rapidly covering more people with more dollars...
...club car of a Miami-to-New York train. "He doesn't look old enough to drink," taunts Sophia. The tall towhead leans forward over the table, sternly wobbles his eyeballs, says: "I'm old enough to do anything." Sure enough, the script requires her to pick...
...dismissed the entire sophomore class, and made the stunning announcement that criminal prosecution would be instituted against the window-breakers. Then, hell broke loose. More windows were smashed, Quincy was hanged in effigy, handwriting appeared on the wall in the chapel saying "A Bone for Old Quin to Pick," and the flag of rebellion flew over Holworthy. Quincy himself testified for three days before the Concord grand jury, the only three times he missed morning prayers while at Harvard...