Word: pickering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prakash Narayan, 76, Indian independence fighter who for 50 years wielded great political and moral influence in his country, though he never held public office; of heart disease; in Patna, India. Born in a small village, Narayan studied in the U.S. for seven years, supporting himself as a fruit picker while, he later said, drinking "deep at the fountain of Marxism." On returning to India in 1929, he joined Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru in the struggle to liberate India from British colonial rule and was repeatedly jailed as an agitator. After independence in 1947, Narayan was heir apparent...
...eyed peas. Carol was down in Tennessee taping a CBS Valentine's Day special, Dolly and Carol in Nashville, with sweet-singing, statuesque Dolly Parton. As Grand Ole Opry fiddlers sawed away, the odd couple careened bravely through the lyrics of No One Can Pick Like a Nashville Picker Picks and No One Can Kick Like a Nashville Kicker Kicks. "I'm going crackers with that picks and kicks thing," grumbled Burnett. Nevertheless, she thinks she and the queen of country music make a perfect pair. Deadpans Burnett: "I trim my eyelashes and bind myself every morning...
Deep in middle age, Isaac has suddenly acquired the wisdom of a sage and the passions of a schoolboy. In his rag picker's guise he becomes smitten with Annie Powell, a beautiful hooker disfigured by a D-shaped scar carved in her cheek...
...Creeger Jr. American Legion Post No. 168, where a press center had been set up. Or they prowled the woods and roads near the gates of Camp David amid a growing armada of sound trucks. Poking through the greenery like the head of a dinosaur, the occasional giant cherry picker, hired at great expense by TV networks, hoisted transmitting antennas above the trees...
...speaker is not a broken-down banjo-picker from somewhere in the South who has played one roadhouse too many. He is one of rock's most successful and respected figures, Robbie Robertson of The Band, explaining in his own slightly hackneyed way the group's decision last year to stop touring. The Band--Robertson (lead guitar and covals), Rich Danko (bass and vocals), Levon Helm (drums and vocals), Garth Hudson (keyboards) and Richard Manuel (piano and vocals)--did what few groups, successful or struggling, have ever managed to do: they quit while they were still ahead...