Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oval office, the President, who stopped smoking after his 1955 heart attack, told Secret Service men to order reporters entering the office to ditch their lighted cigarettes. He also took to thrusting ashtrays at visitors, and recently, while walking with a guest outside his office, swooped down to pick up a crushed butt and dump it in an ashtray...
...issue of auto safety is as complex as it is emotional, and the inevitable temptation is to lean on cliches and pick a scapegoat. The auto companies for years have blamed the driver, pointing to the National Safety Council's estimate that 85% of all accidents result from careless driving. Psychologists agree that driving is a direct extension of the human personality, reflecting tendencies to care, compassion, aggression or even suicide. Lately, however, some polemicists have been trying to place all the blame on the machines, not on the man. Most conspicuous among these is Lawyer Ralph Nader...
...apparatus that would warn a driver when he is performing sloppily. Ford is well along with a "wrist steer"-two small wheels at the driver's side that would replace the dangerous steering shaft. Engineers at G.M. are tinkering with "unicontrol," a sort of auto pilot that would pick up directional signals from the road...
...Names nun, often driven to despair as her politically influential father constantly meddled in her cloistered life-winning her trips to Europe, paying for her to come to Washington's Catholic University for a Ph.D. and helping her stretch her poverty vows by sending his limousine around to pick her up at the Library of Congress-until his death in 1954, after which she left the order to care for her mother and ailing sister, later became a successful stockbroker, a three-book author and a college humanities teacher; of cancer; in Bethesda...
That's one point of view. But pick an average girl trotting into the ancient Radcliffe Gym, and chances are that she is in a lot better shape than her Harvard counterpart in Lamont...