Word: pick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After an out, Pat Sullivan singled to score O'Connell and tie the game, 3-3. After Cobb and Sullivan successfully executed a double-steal, Morelli struck out, and catcher Guy Leach tried to pick Cobb off third. Leach's throw sailed past Catone into left field to score Cobb with the go-ahead run. Co-Captain Frank Caprio then ripped a double into left-centerfield to score Sullivan with the final run of the game...
...looks back, Wilbur acknowledges that he often worked at odds with evolving fashions. He did not pick up the rhythm of the Beats or the lacerating self-display of such confessional poets as Sylvia Plath. "It just comes naturally to me to work in meters, rhyme, stanza forms. There were times when it seemed dreadfully stuffy, in some sense reactionary, to write in that manner. I have no case against any other way of writing. I did what I could...
...order to pick a speaker, Schwalbe said, the committee surveyed a number of seniors and compiled a list of about 45 possible candidates, which it eventually narrowed down to 10 names. While Schwalbe said the committee did encounter some difficulty scheduling a speaker, she said Wolfe was one of the committee's top choices all along...
...first entered the macho business of building commercial-jet engines. Two decades ago, when a GE representative tried to sell a new engine to Donald Nyrop, then president of Northwest Airlines, the executive pointed to a ceiling fixture and wisecracked, "Whenever I want a light bulb, I'll pick GE's. For jet engines, I'll stick with Pratt & Whitney!" Nearly all jet airliners built at that time, notably the long-range Boeing 707 and shorter- haul McDonnell Douglas DC-9, were powered by engines carrying Pratt & Whitney's eagle emblem. GE, despite success in developing high-thrusting jet engines...
...Cloud 9 can be said to have a plot--a mighty big "If"--it exists only to carry the play from the jokey sex scene or pick-up scene to the next. Every character is to some degree obsessed with sex. The problem is that the characters are at the same time confused about their sexual identities. Some are secretly homosexual or bisexual, some are secretly adulterous, some secretly share one or more of these traits and some display them openly. To further confuse things, some of the actors and actresses cross-dress to play people of the opposite...