Word: pick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students must follow a strict dress code in classes; men are required to wear shirts and ties and women must wear skirts or dresses. To pick up their monthly meal tickets, men must get the length of their hair checked, while women are required to wear brassieres and skirts of "modest length"--with a maximum slit of three inches. Culottes, decollete dresses and spaghetti straps are forbidden under the code, as are ankle bracelets because "they make the guys think you're from the wrong side of the tracks," Penny Petr, an ORU sophomore, jokes. "I know it sounds terrible...
...carry plenty of support. The schoolchildren, mostly sons and daughters of coal miners and farmers, attend lily white public schools and eat free lunches. Bussing has never mattered because Scott County has not had a single black resident for at least the last seven years. On Saturday afternoons the pick-up trucks drive into town with rifles and shotguns in the gun racks. And on Sunday, families attend church in this predominantly Presbyterian community. No one seems to hate anybody else...
...library, a magnificent stone and glass structure designed by I.M. Pei, was slated to be built next to where the Kennedy School of Government now stands. But community fears about possible increased congestion in the Square forced the library corporation to change those plans and pick the Dorchester site...
...Quakers break on to the scoreboard. Who ever let pacifists play a game like football? Our guest selector, Duane Glasscock is the only known clone on radio. He's also the only predictor in the world (well, I can't call him a man or a machine) to pick Penn, Colgate 3, Columbia 2. A Sominex Bowl. But brush before...
Thomas M. Reardon, director of development, said yesterday he was not sure what Dillon would speak about. "Twenty-five years ago he spoke here about how he views Harvard, its impact on our society, and that impact on the rest of the world, so he might pick up that theme again," he said...