Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office's chief problems is that not enough people know what, where, or how it operates. Some students think of Student Placement as a place to pick up a job as a dishwasher at Leverett rather than a sober conference with Crooks or Huntington about a future vocation. For this and other reasons, the Office originated the Career Conferences in 1948 which have gone a long way to bring Student Placement before the eyes of the student...
...that drove the Russians out of their country less than two years before, the people of Austria have been far from neutral toward the refugee Hungarians. Alone of all nations, they welcomed the halt, the blind, the sick and the aged among the refugees and did not seek to pick among them...
...game isolates its two contestants in glass-walled booths. Each tries to amass 21 points by answering questions in categories over which he has no choice. The questions are worth from one to eleven points according to difficulty, and by picking the number, he can choose how hard a question he wants (Van Doren's frequent strategy is to pick the tough 10-and 11-point questions and go for a quick 21). At the end of the second round, either contestant can stop the game if he thinks he is ahead. The winner gets $500 a point...
...mails to Mexico's Caliente Future Book. Otherwise restricted to on-course pari-mutuel betting or illegal off-course bookmakers, Caliente's bettors could formerly mail a bet to the Mexican book months in advance of such big stakes as the Garden State or the Kentucky Derby, pick their horse from a long list of possible entries at odds as high as 1,000 to 1, get back 10% of their bet if their horse simply started. If an added starter, not on the Caliente list, beat a bettor out of the money, Caliente paid off anyway...
With this precision, Sailer combines not only strength and prime condition, but an astonishing ability to pick the fastest (not always the shortest) route to the finish line. Sailer's word for his technique is Tuschen, a Kitzbühel slang term that may derive from the word for brush strokes in an ink drawing, and somehow seems to fit the smooth, effortless swing down the slopes to an endless list of championships...