Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Confrontation politics" is the essence of the new student movement--confrontation with the power structure on main street, or the campus, in Washington. This is the particular form that political action has taken. Civil Rights tactics are the great source of inspiration. The tactic is to pick an issue and confront the power structure with it as dramatically as possible. There are a series of acts and events, with a certain style to them and moving in the same general direction...
...association does not provide direct financial support to candidates, but its endorsed slate--advertised throughout Cambridge by billboards, mass mailings, and election-day handout cards--serves as a guide for a large number of uninformed voters. "There are thousands of people who pick up these things and vote for CCA candidates as the good guys," says one old hand...
After Harvard's fourth inning rally, the two teams matched goose-eggs until the Crimson added another run in the seventh. Tufts-came back the next inning to pick up two unearned runs off George Lalich, Harvard's third sophomore pitcher, to close the scoring...
...Dylan Thomas and enthusiastically embraced his pub-and-pad life style. Nicolette herself became an artist, because "art" was the only thing she could do, and married an artist-Anthony Devas-because artists were the only people she knew. But she had the good luck or good sense to pick a nonflamboyant type with solid talent who achieved a modest success as a portrait painter, with no impulse to live it up, sleep around or hurl defiance at the bourgeoisie who bought his pictures...
...dealing with London's foreign language. Sometimes an actor concentrated so hard on dropping an 'h' or putting in an 'aye' that his whole line came out meaning only, "I wish I were English!" And voices invariably slipped into Cambridgeese after an arduous cockney spurt. Why didn't Hurley pick something original and indigenous? Then his cast could have projected emotions instead of taking an Eliza Doolittle lesson in reverse...