Word: picked
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...doing this out of any sympathy for Dean Acheson. Obviously, the Republicans were worried about more practical considerations. They feared that the Ives resolution, whether Ives intended it so or not, suggested a Republican sitdown strike in the face of war. Since Harry Truman, and not the Republicans, would pick the next Secretary, they wondered what kind of man the nation was apt to get. Most talked of possibilities: Chief Justice Fred Vinson, ex-ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, Defense Deputy Secretary Bob Lovett, John Foster Dulles, Presidential Adviser Averell Harriman. In Republican eyes most of these possibilities would be preferable...
...repeatedly provided the beleaguered troops with an aerial bridge to their bases. Day after day "flying boxcars" had swung low over the column to drop ammunition, medical supplies and rations. And eight miles back up the road at Hagaru, C-475 had set down on an improvised airstrip to pick up long lines of wounded and frostbitten men. Said Combat Cargo Command Pilot Lieut. James Wood: "The marines scraped out the field at Hagaru one afternoon while we circled over it." Every plane in Wood's squadron was damaged by enemy small-arms fire during operations in the northeast...
Before he flew to Stockholm to pick up his Nobel Prize money, Novelist William (Intruder in the Dust) Faulkner, a qualified authority on the seamy side of life, was cornered by Manhattan reporters who asked him what he considered the most decadent aspect of American life. Answered Faulkner: "It's this running people down and getting interviews and pictures of them just because something's happened to them." For the presentation in Stockholm, Faulkner made his first appearance before a microphone and TV cameras, wore white tie & tails for the first time, met fellow Prizewinner Bertrand Russell...
...Pick up any newspaper--from the New York Times to the New Orleans Times-Picayune to Ultima Hora in Lima, Peru. If there's a story in it about Radcliffe, it didn't get there without an official okay from the Radcliffe administration...
These girls write for more than their own papers. Associated Press and United Press quickly pick up their stories, spreading them across America and the world. What the world knows about Radcliffe College is what it learns from these five chosen students. Except, of course, for stories that break in the CRIMSON, jump to the Boston papers and then to the wires. The CRIMSON picks its own correspondents...