Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, there were enough crunching blocks and backfield razzle-dazzle to satisfy the fans. The general idea of a draft is for the weakest teams to pick first, thereby spreading the wealth. But the two days of haggling over 445 players produced such a blizzard of trades among the 25 teams that hardly a single player ended up where expected...
...administrators, professors, journalists, and MPs--have advanced many theories in the last few weeks to explain the student unrest at the LSE and its apparent national resonance. Some were quick to pick out the "Berkeley-influenced American agitators" who objected to "any kind of authority." Others more intelligently viewed the crisis in the context of Britain's larger problems of higher education. The students themselves saw it both as part of a general social problem, and as a result of specific events...
Sophomore Jan Rus, who led the team in scoring last year, played enough in high school, however, to be an all-American, and many of the swimmers in the club pick up water polo fairly easily...
Coffin's recent appeal was met with a great deal of enthusiasm by seminarians throughout the country. Some 250 students had plans to turn in their draft cards, confident that they would not be arrested because of the size of the group. "But we realized that they would just pick off the leaders," John E. Cuppels, second year Divinity student who is organizing the conference, said, and the movement lost strength...
...when the program began," Moll recounts, "the African nations were not very sophisticated in appraising their manpower needs, and so we would sweep in and pick up the best and brightest students in any subject...