Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right," he yelled, "Let's go." His mouth showed a thousand huge teeth as he strutted before the band. The snare drum began its military marching tempo, then Booker-T thumped two pick-up beats on the big bass drum, and we were off. The number was "Lord, you sure been good to me," an un-tempo hymn played to the lashing syncopation which only a New Orelans brass band can achieve...
Conceived as a classic western about the pursuit of one of those bitch goddesses, Mackenna's Gold is manned by an honor roll of movie stars of the '40s: Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Massev, Eduardo Ciannelli, Burgess Meredith, Edward G. Robinson, Keenan Wynn. Together they pick the hambone clean in a search for the usual lost gold cache -before they get wiped out in the customary massacre. Left over are a Mexican villain (Omar Sharif), leathery Marshal Mackenna (Gregory Peck), one surly, burly Apache and two obligatory ladies. The blonde (Camilla Sparv), supposedly Arizona-born and bred, speaks...
...course, it should be a very close meet," McCurdy said. "But if we can pick up our expected total in the field events, and hold our own in the distance events we should have a good chance," he added. He listed the distance events, discus, and jumping events as those which would be the most accurate indicators of the meet's outcome...
...away from Yale's Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, who edged Johnson in the Heps. If Eli football star Calvin Hill doesn't compete in the meet--he hasn't competed this season--the Crimson's Bob Galliers will be the broad jump favorite. If Hill does participate, however, he could pick up important points in both broad and triple jump for the Elis...
...training camp's ennui was occasional evening leave when a few dozen recruits were released on the town. The local movie theater was showing a Walt Disney kiddie film, so most of the men made the rounds of the saloons lined up along Second Avenue or tried to pick up a "squaw...