Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something. I don't know what it was. Then the boy was laying on the sidewalk. Mr. Bain was kicking him in the face. He was bleeding about the nose and mouth." Turner said that he also saw Jerome Shaw smash the windows of a car with a pick handle, recounted other scenes of men gone berserk...
...home or in Boston. They know where to get the stuff and some of them come to Harvard all set to sell it. Since most drugs are obtained from friends or entry companions, the more there are with drugs on hand, the easier it is for other students to pick them...
...life, Thomas H. Moorer has been a comer. He was valedictorian of his high school class at 15, then had to wait two years before he could pick up his appointment and sail through Annapolis in the class of '33. At Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, he survived to pilot Navy reconnaissance planes again and pick up a fistful of medals, from the Purple Heart to the Distinguished Flying Cross. Since then, he has had some of the toughest jobs in the Navy, including commander of the Seventh Fleet and, most recently, the tricky triple-hatted post...
...device is effective only when operated into the wind. Carried by the leading man in a patrol, for example, the E63 will pick up the odor of patrol members themselves if the wind is at their backs. But it is sensitive enough to pick out an upwind enemy sniper lying in ambush at distances greater than the range of most rifles. "There's no question about it now," says Lieut. Colonel Alvin Hylton, chemical officer of the 1st Infantry Division. "It works...
...very next day, however, the institutions reasserted their command of the market, and the Dow-Jones average rose precisely as much as it had fallen-12.42 points. Market watchers credited the rise to the fact that funds moved in to pick up bargains that had been created by the drop of the day before...