Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other people were equally grateful. The mailman came by at 5:30 to pick up the day's letters. Meanwhile, we were offering people the chance to use the mailbox before it closed. The trusty letter carrier waved us a fond goodbye after doing his duty, saying "thanks a lot guys, see you tomorrow...
...mailings to the full membership. "Just imagine," says NAS Member Julian Wolpert, professor of geography at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, "if we could get all that letter- writing energy into a campaign against Gaddafi, say, or for human rights. I wish he'd pick his causes better...
...hours a day, she trains her dogs. Butcher and Monson race five to 10 teams a day, building up the dogs' endurance like marathon runners until they can run 26-30 miles. "Then I can go anywhere with them," she says. "This is our basketball team, we have to pick our players, then we have to condition them physically...there is little for anything else...
...Baxter, Harvard's starter in the nightcap, survived threats in the sixth and seventh innings to pick up his fifth win in as many decisions...
Novelist Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country) has elaborated: "We never trekked, we never developed a new language, we were never defeated in war, we never had to pick ourselves out of the dust." Paton, 84, once served as president of the now defunct Liberal Party and feels the Afrikaners' tribal sense outweighed the English fondness for making money and playing golf. "The English here don't want to rule everything and everybody," he says. "Both Afrikaners and English have a love of the country, but the Afrikaner's love is in general more fierce, more emotional, more aggressive...