"And it was after that that McRaven reported that finally they had picked up the code word Geronimo," the name given to Bin Laden in the operation.
Finally, though, they pick up a double in the fifth end, reducing their arrears to 9-3.
Finally, they must pick the victims for the sacrifice, but this, too, becomes a complicated matter, involving two cuts.
"They finally picked up," she said, "and hung right up".
On top of all that, Younis, ornery soul, found time to pick fights with his captain, his coach and the chairman of his board, complain that he shouldn't have been dropped from the ODI team, and then quit ODI cricket when they finally picked him.
Finally, they found jobs picking strawberries and made their first money in America.And thus they joined the vast undocumented workforce that undergirds America's food supply.
When adult wasps finally emerge from the fig, they pick up pollen and take it to another tree.
They seem to have been on the eighth hole for a couple of hours, but finally they've agreed to pick up and move on after a pair of bogeys.
And so they weathered the deluge, swimming and wading through varying depths until they were finally picked up by Ms. Oleynik's cousin, whom the couple had managed to reach despite the wretched cellphone service.
After several encounters with an old prospector dying of thirst, a racist police officer, two lesbians, and a short Mexican man, they are finally picked up by a trucker.
