Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sportswriters are talking about Koufax winning 30 games, which would make him the first pitcher to achieve that since Dizzy Dean won 30 for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1934. "I would have to win almost every start the rest of the way and pick up some in relief," says Koufax. With the Dodgers clinging to a thin lead and three teams in pursuit, Manager Walt Alston was thinking along exactly those lines...
...delicate mission in Prague, Morley hires an unpublished writer (Dirk Bogarde). "I'd be a lot happier if he'd been to a decent school," says Morley's aide in dour appraisal of the new man. Bogarde believes that he is a trade representative sent to pick up a message from a Czechoslovakian glass factory. Instead he picks up the Communist intelligence chief's voluptuous daughter (Sylva Koscina), one of those girls to whom defection and seduction are practically synonymous. Of course, the two fall in love and run into difficulties that lead them from...
...term 'Sino-Soviet bloc' "don't know what is going on in the world." It is diverting to speculate upon the reaction at Harvard if a visiting professor were to write a memorandum to the History Department stating that he assumed every one knew that the word "charisma"--to pick a bit of academic jargon at random -- was of little analytic use, and hoped the faculty would have the kindness not to use it in the future...
...content merely to clothe a girl; they want to improve her across the board. To this end, they run articles on the latest fads and campus rebellions. Outside columnists weigh in with portentous advice: Peter Sellers tells how to create the real self; Dr. Albert Ellis tells how to pick up a man in a ladylike fashion. The magazines run fiction of a sort that delicately explores feminine sensibilities, authors ranging from Truman Capote to Irwin Shaw...
...have doubled in the last seven months, the West German government last week bowed to election-year pressures and decided to increase subsidies to its faltering coal industry, which already receives more than $150 million a year in subsidies. If the European Coal and Steel Community approves, Bonn will pick up another $11 million tab this year in order to let miners spend part of their time at repair work instead of digging, will guarantee $60 million in bank credits to buy surplus coal and spend $40 million more over four years to store...