Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bertagna recognized that scores of current and former athletes would pick up his Crimson chronicle at the bookstore and flip straight...
When Coach Harry Parker wanted to send his men's crew team to Egypt in 1979 to race against the Cairo Police Department on the Nile, all he had to do was pick up the phone and give his team's top fundraiser, Nick Bancroft, a ring. Bancroft then put the proposal before the management committee of the Friends of Harvard Rowing--and the rowers were on their...
Coed rooms work out well because they provide the chance to pick roommates purely on the basis of their personality, and not on the basis of their sex. This can often create a more harmonious room...
...Usually you have to round up five guys to live with. Some guys just sort of travel in packs. It's better if you can pick who you really want to live with," says Cunningham...
...dishes first became available in 1979, they were a boon for rural residents who lived outside the range of cable hookups. With a dish-shaped antenna aimed at one of several communications satellites circling the globe, these viewers could watch not just satellite-beamed entertainment channels (which cable systems pick up with their own dishes and distribute to subscribers via cables), but foreign broadcasts, corporate video conferences, even the private transmissions of network programs like the Tonight show, unedited and without commercials...