Word: picked
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Idaho. Harriet ("Babe") Hansen, who at 50 is an experienced rancher, ex-sergeant in the WAC, forest ranger, and wilderness guide, won the Republican nomination for sheriff of Boise County. Said sturdy "Babe," who wears a 10-gallon hat, reportedly can pick the eye out of a grouse at 100 yds., and has shot 75 mountain lions: "I think I'm qualified...
...Panico: a sausage-sized balloon with about 250 pieces of braided silk attached. The patient swallowed the balloon and about two feet of rubber tube with it. Once inside the stomach, the balloon was inflated and worked around for an hour so that the tufts of silk would pick up as many cells as possible...
...October, 16 more U.S. cities will be added to the 33 already linked by television's coaxial cable and microwave relay network. The swing to the south will tie in Louisville, Huntington, W. Va., Nashville, Greensboro and Charlotte, N.C., Jacksonville, Atlanta and Birmingham. Moving westward, the net will pick up Indianapolis, Rock Island, Ill., Davenport and Ames, Iowa, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha and Kansas City. California's TV stations can join the national net late in 1951, when the final link between Omaha and San Francisco is completed...
...seems fairly clear that not only Ben but Author Falstein, too, is out to hand-pick an ugly side of the war and call it the whole picture. It would be hard to guess from Face of a Hero that the war was won, that Hitler was rubbed out, that millions of G.I.s knew very well, beneath their gripes, what the score...
Once upon a carefree time, escapists could pick up a historical novel confident of finding a simple mixture of sword play and midnight love. Nowadays, as part of the now fashionable pedantry that corrodes everything from highbrow poetry to lowbrow science fiction, the historical novel is often as minutely researched as a Ph.D. thesis. Merchant of the Ruby, a fearsomely thorough drenching in the 15th Century Wars of the Roses, is a prime example. Readers of the Merchant need a refresher course in history, an elaborate diagram of royal genealogy, and a passionate interest in the problem of which English...