Word: picking
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Princeton plays Penn, and it's hard to pick between a team that completes five of 31 passes for 61 yards and has six intercepted, and a team that loses to a team that yields 82 points to Temple. Princeton has no offense; Penn has no defense...
...Kennedy chatted together last week in front of New York City's Gracie Mansion, the mayor's official residence, it took only a flicker of fantasy to imagine that they were standing in the White House portico, circa 1972. It was almost a case of take-your-pick. Dressed alike in dark suits and rep ties-only the breastpocket handkerchief set Harvardman Kennedy apart from Yaleman Lindsay-both exuded all the youth, intelligence and patrician good looks a voter could hope for. Though mere commoners in their respective parties, the mayor and the Senator each had about...
...sooner had the World Series cheering faded than the Baltimore Orioles' Frank Robinson, 31, set off to make some noises of his own. In Manhattan with his wife Barbara to pick up the Corvette Sting Ray that Sport magazine gave him for being the Series' standout, Frank began exercising his vocal cords for the winter's after-dinner speaking circuit, which will keep him busy describing how he won batting's Triple Crown and then went on to wreck the Los Angeles Dodgers with two more homers in the Series. Frank, who stands to collect about...
Private Line. Later that same year, Dulles' people began to pick up fascinating intelligence in the form of peace feelers from Nazi leaders assigned to northern Italy. As the tide turned against the Nazis, these overtures grew in number, so Dulles decided to pave a channel of communications for the enemy...
...weeks, say, to once every two and a half. But the difference for the Houses would only be marginal. The total amount of University dirt, to put the matter in terms the bureaucrats will understand, would be dramatically reduced. At the very least, the freshman would be required to pick up the old newspapers, clothes, and towels now scattered around the rooms to let the vacuumers get at the dust underneath...