Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...held rallies up and down the 2,600-mile length of his country and spoken time after time over radio and TV. Though his Christian Democrats face the vote-splitting opposition of eleven other parties, they are still expected to win 56 to 60 Assembly seats and pick up two Senate seats for a total of eleven...
...shapes a new character and morality. The clergy have neither a divine mandate nor authority nor special competence to articulate particular programs of politico-economic action." Another is Episcopalian John Maury Allin, coadjutor Bishop of Mississippi, who says: "I get the feeling that they meet at the national level, pick a problem, and send a staff of three or four rushing in with proclamations...
...Most people look at the high post the wrong way," Williams continued. "Most teams try to get the ball into the high post. I'm more of a pick for the guards." In a standard Harvard play, a guard will dribble in close to Williams, who stands at the foul line with his back to the basket. The guard will then either take a shot, using Williams as a screen, or out for the basket, using him as a pick to scrape the defender...
...high post and Merle McClung under the basket at the low post, has not worked very effectively this year. Neither is in good rebounding position and, at 6-5 they both give away height to many of the teams Harvard plays. Also, the guards rarely use Williams for a pick...
Film spoke directly to his own experience; it rendered the speed and randomness with which things happen to modern men: "You pick up the phone in your office and hear that somebody has died." Films, lacking the conventional devices of the theatre, have to deal with what Roemer calls "this contiguity of unrelated affects." Nothing But A Man, for instance, switches without warning from inside to outside, from a home to a factory, from one city to another. "I had not though of my life as heroic, at least in any classical sense. But film made me aware...