Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take Couve's place. Aside from being an astute diplomat, Couve de Murville is an exceptionally effective administrator and an inspecteur des finances whose task will be to get France's shaken economy in order. Debré, always close to De Gaulle, can be expected to pick up on the general's foreign policy without missing a beat...
...violation. The dissident may be right in the eyes of history or morality or philosophy. But these are not controlling. Just as we expect the government to be bound by all laws, so each individual is bound by all of the laws under the Constitution. He cannot pick and choose...
Implacably tough and hard to pick off, the lice resemble real crabs. There the similarity ends. No longer or wider than one or two millimeters, they are usually invisible to the naked eye, and nestle most often in the pubic area (though they occasionally stray to the scalp, eyelashes and other thickets of body hair). They use their powerful jaws to feed leisurely on the blood of their hosts for hours at a time. For whites they are particularly irksome because their yellowish-grey color is a natural camouflage on Caucasian skin...
Such pressures, direct and indirect, have had a profound impact on the 630,000 seniors who will pick up diplomas this spring. While many?perhaps a majority?are the familiar breed who spent their years at college in pursuit of an education or a profession without fretting too much over the meaning of either, even the quiet ones have been affected more than they show. Those who are in the really new mold sometimes show it by a defiance in dress: beards beneath the mortarboards, microskirts or faded Levis under the academic gowns. More often, and far more significantly...
...NCAA team title is decided by adding the top four individual scores during the 36-hole first two days. The top fifty individual finishers then play another 36 holes to pick the Intercollegiate individual champion...