Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hurlburt's proposal would convert the small dining room on the Prescott St. side of the Union into a "free flow cafeteria" where each student would pick up his own food. The second floor serving line and dining area as well as the present serving line would be eliminated completely...
...people get marijuana. The "how" is simple. Most of the marijuana in local circulation comes from New York, although an occasional batch enters directly from overseas and some "very good stuff" is grown in Greater Boston. Prospective buyers need only know someone who knows someone. Virtually anyone can easily pick up a nickel ($5) bag, which contains less than an ounce of marijuana...
Dirty Snowballs. Whipple is the author of the "dirty snowball" theory of comets. He believes comets form, molecule by molecule, out of frozen gases beyond the outermost planets. They pick up bits of dust and start drifting ever so slowly toward the distant sun. When they gather speed as they approach the sun, their surface gets hotter, turning some of the frozen gas to vapor and freeing some of the dust to form the comets' glowing heads and tails. When an old comet disintegrates, it leaves bits of fluff to wander in space...
...fastest-growing U.S. advertising agencies, Julian Koenig, 42, president of Manhattan's four-year-old Papert, Koenig, Lois, Inc. A horse player who claims to make money at it, Koenig chooses his ads, and the people to create them, with much the same educated intuition he uses to pick the ponies: "You look, sniff and close your eyes." His shop is approaching $30 million in annual billing, having just landed the Piel's Beer account and much of the Quaker Oats and U.S. Rubber business-a rare hat trick on Madison Avenue. Koenig still writes some drug...
Knife in the Water begins against a feebly sunlit landscape in the lake region of Poland. A bored husband and wife are driving out for a day's sailing. They stop to pick up a brash young hitchhiker, whose insolence catalyzes their own hostility-and this three-cornered thriller quickly generates force. By the time they reach pierside, the two males are abristle, eying each other like cocks in a pit. "You're no match for me, but come aboard," taunts the older man. The boy accepts: "Ah, you want to carry on the game...