Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...champagne and the Viennese waltzes came Bopha Devi, prima ballerina of the Royal Cambodian Ballet. Sinuous and shimmering, dressed in green and gold, she danced a ritual dance in bare feet. When she accidentally dropped her ring, a woman servant slithered across the parquet floor on her belly to pick it up lest Bopha bruise herself...
What was he doing there? Frankly, he was out to harass the Johnson Administration by posing as a serious candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. By moving into Wisconsin's presidential primary fight, he also figured that he might even pick up enough segregationist votes to embarrass Governor (and Democratic favorite son) John Reynolds...
...avoid this difficulty would be to make the outside-course component in the Honors ratio optional. It would be included in computing departmental Cum and Magna degrees unless detrimental to the student's Honors standing. This does not mean a student could pick and choose which outside grades would be used in this component of the ratio and which would not. Outside grades would be considered as a group: they would either be counted or discarded together...
Anyone who glances at 1962 election results will, find a rational explanation for these districts: The three Republican Congressmen from the City have safe districts, and Republicans in a good year should be able to pick up two others...
...Crimson didn't pick up any points after Friday's matches, when Pereira (177), Ben Brooks (191) and Tack Chace (Hwt.) all won their first-round matches and lost in the next round...