Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soapy" Williams had campaigned on a 4:30 a.m.-to-midnight schedule, had shrewdly hit hardest in heavily Democratic Wayne County (including Detroit), where the United Auto Workers Union had cranked up a get-out-the-vote drive. In Wayne County a record 470,000 voters turned out, helped pick Democrats for superintendent of public instruction and three seats on the Supreme Court. So powerful was the governor's imprimatur that it even engineered a victory for 36-year-old Genesee County Surveyor John C. Mackie, whose qualifications to become state highway commissioner had been questioned by the Michigan...
...Essenes' own history; 3) The War of the Sons of Light with the Sons of Darkness, which seems to be an account of the end of the world told like a detailed battle plan for Armageddon, and 4) Essene Psalms. Besides these documents, there is the evidence of pick and shovel-the site itself, worked over five times by expeditions since...
...pass out dollar bills to get people into the theater. " Now the ladies fight to get into the Hollywood studio, bolt a buffet lunch, and scribble their wishes on a card. M.C. Bailey and Producer Mynatt select the 21 likeliest wishes, and backstage interviews just before air time pick the day's five contestants to be judged by the studio audience. "The woman who gives her wish from the bottom of her heart," muses Bailey, "just about gets it every time...
...rays). At college after college, the cry seems to be: set the student free. Examples: ¶ Now ten years old, Yale's Scholars of the House program has provided much of the inspiration for the big fight for independence. Each year 15 to 18 seniors are allowed to pick a research project and a professor to give them guidance. They may write a novel or produce a volume of poems, pursue such topics as "William Wordsworth's Metrical Forms" or "Development of the Hero in Dostoevsky's Novels. " Though the Yale library is their chief haunt, they...
...looked quite sharp out in the field, with only one error, while Tufts' infield was very inept. The one JV error, a wild throw by catcher Dave Fairburn in an attempted pick-off, resulted in one runner scoring and another being put in a position to score. Fairburn redeemed himself by successfully picking off a runner later in the inning...