Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...endorsed candidate who failed to win was Harvard Ed School student Francis X. Hayes. Though Hayes ran fifth in the initial count, he failed to pick up strength as weaker candidates were eliminated, and their votes redistributed according to the City's Proportional Representation electoral system...
...money, he would like to continue his traveling next summer-this time in Europe. "I want to pick up as many experiences as I can while I'm in college, so that when I'm 35 I can look back and say I did that and I didn't do that. And one thing I haven't done enough of is traveling," he explained...
...Harvard my role isn't to play up in front. When the play enters the penalty area. I fall back to pick up any loose balls that might be kicked back out," he said. An indication of his success this year is the fact that he leads the team with 10 assists...
Almost every U.S. tourist overseas knows that the place to change money, pick up the mail from home and meet fellow travelers is American Express. Famed as they are, however, the American Express offices in Paris, Rome, Tokyo and just about every other capital have never been the company's big profit makers. For many years, Amexco was really not much more than a bank with a tourist front. Lately it has branched into two dozen other areas of business, to become a sort of department store of financial and travel-related services...
...incumbent Daniel J. Hayes Jr. (eleventh with 1155 votes) pick up new votes in the redistribution faster than newcomer Leonard J. Russell (tenth with 1159)? If Hayes begins to slip, even a little, his chances of re-election will approach zero...