Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...able to cry colonialism; 2) Russians would not be able to demand inclusion to balance any contingent from the U.S. Shortly after the U.N. General Assembly endorsed the police force (64-0), Eisenhower, with U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's approval, ordered U.S. military transports to pick up the vanguards from such small-power points as Jutland and Bogotá and to airlift them to a Naples staging area. Neutral Swiss planes would take them on to the Middle East...
...deal more-were the hardeyed professional speculators on Toronto's Bay Street who had committed one of the mortal sins of speculation: they had been "caught short" in Chatco stock. They had sold thousands of shares of the stock in hopes that it would fall and they could pick it up later at a cheaper price for delivery to the buyer...
Long Month's Journey. In Pasadena, Calif., after 24 club members, 100 police officers and 250 boy car club members searched for a month, failed to find any qualifiers, the Sertoma Club called off this year's contest to pick the city's most courteous driver...
With incredible speed, the Tigers came back to pick up their final touchdown. Three plays after Phil Haughey's kick-off, Mottley faded back on the Harvard 37 and lofted a pass to end Charlie Disbrow on the 16. He was hit by a Harvard man, but escaped, and behind some good blocking scampered into the end zone...
Guest Stir. In Dallas, Jailbird Bobby Calhoun showed up masked on Confession, a local TV show, complained that he could not go straight because "police pick me up every time they see me," was arrested five days later when cops searched the trunk of his car, found part of a stolen safe...