Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corpsmen who have completed their tours of duty. In a remote settlement in Southern India recently, a young Corpsman announced that he would soon be returning to the U.S. to get married. Distraught villagers tried to induce him to stay by offering him anything he might want-including his pick of the local maidens...
...percentage of voters. Thus, he reasoned, the act's automatic triggering mechanism, which is aimed at any state or county where less than 50% of the voting-age population was registered for or cast ballots in the 1964 presidential election, is arbitrary and capricious. "Congress can't pick out a few states and say that because these facts existed, we're going to apply the law to you," he argued. "The legislative prerogative doesn't include the right to put a penalty on one person and one person only...
...Best Authority. No obligation perhaps, but the President was not about to let reporters pick up the implication that he simply did not like trying to handle them en masse. So he promptly called a conference-with TV, the whole Cabinet, and even the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development on hand...
...awfully easy to pick on Ronald Reagan, and I might get to feeling sorry for him, if I weren't convinced that he possesses a masochist's love of suffering. Just look at the evidence. Back on the gridiron, Reagan had "a collection of the largest purplish black bruises possible. More than once I must have been a walking coagulation." Still, he reminisces, "those were the happiest times of my life." In politics, Reagan found himself "misrepresented, cursed, vilified, denounced and libeled. Yet it was by far the most fascinating part of my life...
Another of Red's well-known talents is picking up castoffs from other clubs, welding them into a winning team-a necessity with the Celtics, who as champions always have last pick in the N.B.A. draft. "You take a washed-up guy," he says, "and if you instill his pride again and create desire, you can squeeze a good year or two out of him." A typical Auerbach retread: Forward Don Nelson, who scored 2.4 points per game for the Los Angeles Lakers last year. With the Celtics, Nelson is averaging 10 points per game...