Word: pickins
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...knife," while Father Morrisroe had something in his right hand that he "took to be a pistol. I saw a round object like a gun barrel." Two defense witnesses, a county construction employee and a stockyard worker, added that they later saw two Negroes leaning over the bleeding bodies "pickin' up a knife" and "sumpin' . . . looked like a pistol"-neatly explaining why no weapons were found on the victims...
...Beatles, Britain's Rolling Stones have attempted to assume the image of Angry Young Men. "The Stones," their manager proudly explains, "are the group that parents love to hate." They sing Mersey-Mississippi rhythm and blues, backed by a quavering guitar and a chugging harmonica that smacks of cotton-pickin' time down South. With a kind of goggle-eyed conviction. Lead...
...million a year. That, plus a loosening of the stiff acreage controls that favor the small Southern cotton growers, would enable the efficiently automated bigger growers in the flatlands of the West to expand, prosper and better compete in world markets. But in Washington this was the last cotton-pickin' solution likely to be considered...
...indeed a joy to hear about a man such as Governor Rockefeller [June 15]. It has been a long time since we have heard a state politician advocating states' rights who doesn't mean: "Keep your bureau-pickin', big-Government hands off our corrupt and inefficient local mess...
...wait just one cotton-pickin' minute: How much can one team take...