Word: picking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reilly?" said the sage of the age as he Coombs his Scully scarching for a proper rejoinder. "Just to show you how I Felt. I will pick it straight as Lazzaro because we can't Moffie this one. It will be no Halliday but by DeFilipo the coin it will be Rt Ro Diverto and Harvard 14 Holy Cross...
Keep cool when you pick up that phone to dial Wellesley or Radcliffe, man. You can't tell what's going on at the other end of the line without television...
Lunden also announced that those who applied for Holy Cross tickets can pick up their tickets now in his basemen lair, but the Dartmouth ducats will not be given out until Monday and Tuesday of next week. Rutgers tickets are currently in the works but will be ready for distribution two weeks hence...
...been the cliff itself. Dazed and half-starved, he spends only one night at home, returns the next morning determined to find Seraphin, whose voice he had heard after the landslide. When the superstitious mountain men refuse to go with him, he crazily attacks the boulder-strewn waste with pick and shovel, is brought back to sanity only by the courage and understanding of his wife who has followed him up the mountainside...
...physical realism and "chamberpot humor" which characterizes much of Joyce. Richardson introduced the "principle of procrastinated rape [which] is said to be the ruling one in all the great best-sellers." Fielding, Pritchett says, is the granddaddy of them all: in his work the reader can not only "pick out the perennial characters of the main part of English fiction, but . . . many of its idiosyncrasies and limits. Sociable man, social problems, middle-class humor, the didactic habit, the club culture, the horseplay, the gregarious rather than the single...