Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...edited by Charles Buxton Jr., pointed out that in 1984 the FBI received reports on only 67 children kidnaped by strangers. For Post Editor David Hall, the stories were especially rewarding, since they began with "a rookie reporter looking deeper into a routine story. It was good old-fashioned pick-ax journalism." Hall's peers agreed: the Denver Post series last week won the newspaper world's most coveted honor, the Pulitzer gold medal for public service...
...another horror story about the University Health Service (UHS), but a few nights ago my roommate and I were horsing around and he accidentally ripped off all of my limbs. I couldn't get an appointment with my real doctor until early in the fall, so I had to pick up the pieces and walk over...
...spent a fair bit of my undergraduate days having run-ins with the CRR, and I've watched several cadres of students come through Harvard to pick up where we left off. But the issues that were behind our protests have been lost in yours. An infatuation with the "bad old days" seems to have replaced intellectual understanding--and sometimes reason--in more recent attacks...
Many links in a chain must be completed, however, before sound can start bouncing off the living-room walls. In order to pick up a network stereo broadcast, a local station must first be adapted for stereo. Some 200 stations have made the technical conversion, and 300 more plan to do so this year. Then, of course, the home viewer must either have a stereo TV or convert his conventional set to stereo with an adapting device (average cost: $150). Once a set is stereo-ready, more sophisticated audio gear can be connected to it. Bill Artope, a producer...
...very amusing. When you walk in [to a Wellesley dorm] there are normally three to four dozen roses waiting for people to pick them up," says Dean Brewer...