Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aging champion of fight towns if the challenger were not so decrepit. Atlantic City forces its smiles through neon casinos that, like gold crowns, only emphasize the surrounding decay. Similarly, Tyson is the younger party involved, but it hardly seems so. The boardwalk age guessers would be lucky to pick his century...
...past three years or so," observes Larry Shapira, a horticulturist and consultant at Merrifield Garden Center outside Washington, "people have started coming in who just don't want to wait for smaller plants to become big ones. They want to go to the garden center in the morning, pick up the plant, drive the thing home, plant it, and have a drink under it that evening...
...assets that the thrift operators gambled away on risky loans are mostly long gone, leaving the FSLIC to pick up the tab. The Government is suing the managers of both thrifts for more than $100 million, charging them with fraud and negligence. But most of the $1.35 billion payout will come from the FSLIC's reserve fund, which is largely composed of premiums collected from...
...miles back to Britain to attend Eton and then Oxford, where he took a master's degree in English. Betwixt and between, Iyer traveled. When he was 17, he toured by bus through half a dozen Latin American countries. Eventually, he quit globe-trotting long enough to pick up another master's degree, at Harvard, where he also taught for two years before signing on as a staff writer for TIME in 1982. (He accepted the job from a pay phone in Sardinia...
With his hapless team 27 games out of first place and losing as usual, Bresnahan had fired an errant pick-off throw over the third baseman's head. As the runner came home, Dave triumphantly tagged him out: he had held onto the ball while tossing an Idaho potato carved to look like a baseball. Unamused, the umpire ruled that the run had scored. Dave's angry manager got him kicked off the team. Last week Bresnahan, now a real estate salesman, was vindicated. "Gehrig had to hit .340 and play in more than 2,000 consecutive games...