Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Harvard being watched and threatened by the MacCarmunists (a group which denounces Russian Communism, but which is selling us and our schools the same ideas of terror, suffocation, and frightened conformity that the Russians failed to sell us), you'd better pick a man they approve of, or the New Commissars of MacCarmunism will denounce the University, and the alumni won't give you any money...
...want to be approved of by the MacCarmunists and not upset the alumni, you had better pick a guy without a head, because then you'd be guaranteed that he hadn't done any talking or thinking in the past that the New Commissars of Education disapprove of now: without a heart, because he may have, in the past been moved to Christian pity for human beings who have now been declared in human by our New Commissars of Who Are Good Guys Who Are Had Guys: and without guts, because with 'em he may have, in the past, objected...
...pick such a guy, you won't have any trouble. Also, you won't have any university. And he'll took this...
Army Ordnance experts explain that the Skysweeper is not intended for knocking down high-altitude bombers. It was designed as a tactical weapon to protect troops and installations from fast, low-flying jets, which it can pick off at any altitude up to four miles...
...never one for holding his boys back--may try to keep the Crimson in single-digit figures. But, even if the Elis were to sweep every first place, which they may do, it is probable that the Crimson will score somewhere in the 'teens. Ulen's squad should pick up seconds in at least three events--the dive, the 100-yard free-style sprints, and the 200-yard breast-stroke--and there's an outside possibility for an upset in anyone of them...