Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supplies, Castro flashed a stack of pesos a foot high, hinted that he had plenty more. The morale of the rebels, whose number Castro kept to himself, seemed high. Batista's troops "never know where we are, but we always know where they are," Castro said. "We can pick them off at a thousand yards with these guns...
...natural-childbirth" technique, which seeks to reduce the mother's dependence on drugs through relaxation and elimination of fear. As in many births by the natural method, the prospective father was on hand, comforting and reassuring his wife-and, in this case, operating a tape recorder to pick up every bedside sound. From twelve hours of tape recorded during labor, Westminster Records last week released a 53-minute Long Playing disk (Natural Childbirth; $3.98), reproducing in sound the high drama of life's beginning...
Things look a bit brighter this year, with Joel Landau and Sandy Dodge in the dash, Landau and Joel Cohen in the hurdles, and Dick Wharton, Bill Morris, Jim Cairns, and French Anderson in the middle distances. John DuMoulin and Pete Harpel could pick up points in the weight. Phil Williams has the unbelievable task of meeting Ron Delany in the mile, while Pete Reider and Dave Norris will compete in a star-studded two-mile field...
...something about the great myth, namely, the idea that Radcliffe girls are overburdened with social life. The average Radcliffe girl goes out twice a week at most. She does not turn away hundreds of eager Graduate students. She is not dated up for weeks in advance. She cannot pick her man and then get him. There is much talk about the ratio, but only one of the seven is likely to be interested in going out and he will probably be scared away by the myth. This myth is propagated by many publications, especially "The Freshman Register." It is part...
...last night as it flunked its most difficult test of the year, 21 to 6, against undefeated N.Y.U. The Violet, with five southpaws, completely outfenced the Crimson despite a very strong performance by the locals. If the varsity fences as well tonight against Columbia, it should be able to pick up a win and round out its Ivy record...