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Word: picking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faced with such opposition, Zinser resigned. Her decision, she said, was based on the "ground swell of concern for the civil rights of deaf persons." The board is now expected to pick a hearing-impaired president. The voice of the deaf was clearly heard -- and heeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: This Is the Selma of the Deaf | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...Guys, pick your heads up, you won the game. Remember that 6-5 game two years ago in Providence for the NCAA Championship? You weren't bowing your heads then...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Why are the Winners Looking So Darned Glum? | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

After a scuffle occurred late in the final period that sold out the penalty box for the rest of the game, Harvard and Michigan State started to play a game of pick-up hockey...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Why are the Winners Looking So Darned Glum? | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

...been 20 years since the party that won Texas lost the overall election, so the Democrats could pick San Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros in an effort to give Bush a battle in his own front yard. But he doesn't come from Dallas or Houston, and besides, Dukakis has already demonstrated that he can win the Hispanic vote in the South without a Hispanic to translate...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: In Search of the Perfect Wimp | 3/15/1988 | See Source »

Wayne County Prosecutor John O'Hair estimates that 70% of all local crimes are drug related. Much of the havoc is crack fueled. "With heroin addicts, there wasn't this propensity for violent crimes," says Commander Warren Harris of the Detroit police. "Crack is a pick-me-up, a big rush. So there is a tendency to become more active, more aggressive and more violent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where The War Is Being Lost | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

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