Word: pick
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USAGE: "Boomers want to pick what grandkids will call them: Meet Glamma and Papa Doc." --Wall Street Journal...
...nonprofit media organization that broadcasts news in English and Burmese via radio, satellite television and the Internet. Sixty of its 140 staff are undercover reporters in Burma. Despite the risks, and probably because of them too, Joshua's new job makes him feel purposeful and alive. "When I pick up the camera, maybe my hands are shaking," he tells us in the opening scene. "But after shooting for a while, it is O.K. ... I have only my subject in my mind, you know?" After filming a small but near-suicidal street protest, Joshua narrowly avoids arrest and leaves the country...
...this station covers. "I know every single one of them by name," says Bozorgnejad with a proud smile and adds, "If a mother doesn't show up with her newborn for a scheduled vaccination, we ring her up. And if she can't come for whatever reason, we go pick the baby up ourselves...
...excitement/purity/antiquity (take your pick) of the Ivy League’s “14-game tournament” comes out in full force today. Yes, all the schools not starting with P have already have already exchanged travel buddies, but the pace picks up now with four Ivy games on each Friday and Saturday night for the next six weeks...
...hits the road this weekend, the Harvard women’s basketball team has the chance to pick up the 500th win in the 32-year history of the program. The main goal on its mind, though, is all about the here and now: the Crimson wants to re-establish its status as the team to beat in the Ivy League.Harvard (8-8, 0-1 Ivy) will look to shake off a Jan. 10 loss in its home opener to perennial rival Dartmouth when it continues conference play at Penn (3-12, 0-1) and Princeton...