Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pennsylvania ran into a strange creature last Saturday--a thoroughly aroused and powerful Brown bear. The result was another surprisingly bad defeat for the Quakers. They managed to pick up their first touchdown in several weeks, but Brown was satisfied with nothing less than 41 points...
...next year's election, in which the Tories, after twelve years in power, face the eager Laborites-and the 14th earl faces that aggressive working-class champion, Harold Wilson. Right now, the odds are overwhelmingly against Home. But whatever else he did, Harold Macmillan did not mean to pick a loser...
...symbolic torch of the Olympic games has burned in many places, but never in Latin America. As the International Olympic Committee met in the West German resort of Baden-Baden last week to pick the site for the 1968 summer games, the French city of Lyon poured out the champagne and was full of effervescent expectations. Michigan's Governor George Romney flew over from the U.S. to plead Detroit's impressive case (its seventh attempt) with the help of a 37-minute movie including a special pitch by President Kennedy. Of the two Latin American contenders, Mexico...
...Craig dissolves the substances to be separated in one of the solvents; the solution is shaken with the other solvent to produce an emulsion (crudest example: oil and water). The substance that he wants to pick out will dissolve more in one component than in the other when they are all shaken up in the glass tubes. The emulsion causes rapid distribution of the substances between the solvents. After the solvents have separated, the C.C.D.'s electronic brain tells it to tilt and pour off the liquid from the top of each tube into the next tube. Repeated hundreds...
...where Navy's Staubach left everyone limp the night before, another 75,000 fans almost expired from excitement the next afternoon when No. 2-ranked Texas crushed No. 1-ranked Oklahoma, 28-7. In South Bend, a crowd of 59,000 watched happily as Southern California, the preseason pick for national champion, went down to its second defeat, 17-14, at the hands of an inspired Notre Dame team that had lost its first two games. At University Park, Pa., underdog (by 12½ points) Army dumped Penn State for the third year...