Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told that that's The Game," Zubrow said, "and you never pick The Game...
Okay. Zubrow won't pick The Game. How 'bout Joe Restic? The Harvard coach has been on the Crimson sidelines for 17 years. Surely he has some notion of who's better. If you were a betting man, coach, which team would you put your money...
...American central nervous system. A single woman may have to go to the personals column for her next beau. A married man may sit on his lust the next time an attractive woman says, "Hi." And next time he and his wife go out on the town, he'll pick the movie...
...downtown Managua calls to mind those almost forgotten revolutions in Africa, from Angola through Zaire, where the rhetoric has marched quickly away from reality. An aging Chevrolet Impala with a cracked windshield and an oil light that glows menacingly in the dark rattles down a potholed road. Bouncing headlights pick out clumps of stoic people waiting for buses that arrive infrequently and full. The bus fleet, local wisdom has it, has almost been run off the road because its mechanics are employed fixing the army's Soviet T-54 tanks. Many people resort to walking, and after dark, shadowy figures...
...have no explanation for the growing number of troubling incidents. You get one instance getting publicity and people of the same persuasion pick up on it. The result is a snowball effect," Johnson said...