Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kill? Reddin is notably evasive, refusing even to outline a situation when he himself would fire his revolver. Ultimately in Los Angeles, the decision is left up to the individual cop. Two hundred marksmen have been assigned to a squad named S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons and Tactics), designed to pick off snipers and to eliminate, presumably, the need for indiscriminate police gunfire, which took innocent victims in Newark and Detroit last year. On the target range they can hit the head of a man's silhouette at 300 yards. A $25,000 trailer has been fitted out as a mobile command...
Since Spain's constitution pledges an eventual restoration of the monarchy, Spaniards have long scanned the official press for clues as to which of the Borbóns Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 75, might pick to fill the long-vacant throne. Monarchist activists pin their hopes on exiled Pretender Don Juan, 55, a moderate who favors evolution toward parliamentary democracy. Many Falangist regulars lean toward his son, Juan Carlos, 30, in the belief that the carefully schooled younger man would prove willing to stick with the regime's less flexible principles...
...Pattison in stead saw "the biggest bore of my life": a game in which both teams, between them, collected only eight hits and struck out 20 times. The only score came in the first inning, when San Francisco's Willie Mays singled, went to second on a muffed pick-off attempt, to third on a wild pitch, and home on a double play. That unearned run gave the National League the game and Mays the Most Valuable Player award...
...youngsters who had neither the wish nor the wherewithal for higher education. One million students drop out of U.S. high schools each year. Out of every five pupils who entered fifth grade in 1957, according to the U.S. Office of Education, only one has stuck it out to pick up his diploma next year. At the same time, only one in four is receiving vocational training in high school. Thus, American high schools busily churn out millions of students who are supposed to head for post-college careers they will never see. Fully 75% of them have had no training...
...girls refuse to play the game with white men, who, they say scornfully, lack today's essential Quality of "soul." There is a deeper deterrent too. Many Negro girls say they are still haunted by the image of the white "massa" coming down the hill to take his pick of slave women. Observes Nancy Lou Smith, a svelte 24-year-old Manhattan career girl from Texas: "For many white males, my skin is still a badge that identifies me as a sexual plaything...