Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just could not keep his hands off the piano. When the family moved to a ranch house near Ione, southeast of Sacramento, the cowhands used to gather around evenings to listen to the boy play, and sometimes Dave's father would pick up his harmonica and with Dave run through every cowboy tune that they could think...
WHRB will operate on an all-night basis tonight broadcasting election returns, trend analyses, and commentaries beginning at 8:30 p.m. and lasting until the results are conclusive. One of the station's pick-ups will be from the CRIMSON, where Daniel A. Resneck '56 will deliver a combined commentary and analysis report...
...delight in the threefold challenge of orienteering: the struggle against natural obstacles, the physical competition against fellow racers, and the intellectual exercise of trying to choose the best route across strange terrain. But most of all, they relish the idea that in any race it is almost impossible to pick a favorite. The fastest runners can get bogged down in unexpectedly sloppy going; the cleverest map readers can lose precious minutes searching for diabolically hidden check points...
Although their invitation called for only 30 athletes, the Soviets sent a squad of 69, promised to pick up the tab for the extra guests, and made double entries in every event. Every day after they got to London, the Soviet trackmen put in a hard morning of training, and turned in early. "The one who has trained the hardest will win," said cocksure Champion Kuc. British sportswriters agreed: they knew that Chataway spends precious little time on the track, smokes, drinks beer, and is notoriously lazy about training. "It is fascinating to read all the gibberish which is being...
...preaches with his shirt collar unbuttoned, so that "my Adam's apple can move up and down." Yet he always looks immaculately pressed and groomed. He is surrounded by electronics-a tiny portable microphone to pick up his voice while he preaches (with a wire clipped to his belt loop), batteries of Dictaphones for dictation, the whole Bible on records. And yet he never sounds mechanical and often seems oldfashioned. He unblushingly applies the hard-sell technique to God ("I am selling," he says, "the greatest product in the world; why shouldn't it be promoted as well...