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Word: picking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counselors who don't really approve. Robert Herman, an attorney in Rochester, calls life-style clauses "an awful waste of money," and Don Smith, a California counselor, says, "It goes from the frivolous to the ridiculous." He says he has helped couples negotiate "everything from who's going to pick up the doggie poo to the usual stuff on feeding the kids and doing the dishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Do Lawyers Make a Marriage? | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

Wanda: All right. You will pick up your underwear four or more times each week, or it will be confiscated and displayed for guests during dinner parties. You will remember the dates of my birthday and our anniversary or have them tattooed on your chest in mirror writing so you can meditate on them while shaving. We will go out to dinner at least once during October, even though it is the sacred time of the baseball playoffs, and you will remain eligible to talk in 10-sec. bursts or more during Monday-night football. You will cease all jokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Do Lawyers Make a Marriage? | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...easy enough to pick out the ringers, the professionals, in the choir. In the instant before she sings, Carole FitzPatrick, the lead soprano, sits forward and seems to assemble herself into a musical instrument, spine straightening, chest swelling, head lifting and tilting back. When the volunteers mumble through the first reading, she growls, sotto voce, "Come on, girls, sing!" "I was singing," comes the lament. The volunteers regroup to one side of their leader, for strength in numbers. They start to open up and "honk it," as FitzPatrick indelicately urges on the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: Blending Voices | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...caller told Rhinelander that the painting would be in Strauss Hall, so she contacted the other artist Ethan Johnson '84, who sent two friends to Strauss D-entry late Thursday night to pick up the mural...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Another Mural Returned After Anonymous Call | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

Papailas, a Second-Team All-Ivy pick, returns along with sophomore Kristina Perkin to lead the team...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Snapping the Big Ivy Oh-Fer | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

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