Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were indications that he planned to join forces with the Socialists in order to make a leftist victory possible in Round 2. Communist Historian Jean Ellenstein told TIME last week he fully expected a leftist accord after the first round. By delaying until then, Ellenstein explained, "the Socialists can pick up extra votes on the right, and the Communists can do the same on the left...
Morris and Burns argue that there has been a dearth of constitutional study over the past two decades. As a result, the nation had to pick "piecemeal" through the Constitution during Viet Nam and Watergate while debating issues like impeachment and executive privilege...
...attitude of the players and coaches toward the manager can either make or break his experience. "You can take all the pick-up tasks and glorified baby-sitter work if you're treated with respect, which grows out of the rapport a manager develops with his squad," Welch commented...
...pick guitars and drive them old trucks, let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such." Waylon and Willie can certainly croon that tune and Larry Mayhan--several-time winner of the North American "All Around Cowboy" competition--sang it last season with his touring rodeo cowboy band. Last June in Casper, Wyoming, Mayhan came riding out into the rodeo arena on the back of a bucking bronc, dismounted, jumped up onto a stage full of guitar-picking cowboys and broke into song: "Cowboys arn't easy to love and they're harder to hold. He'd rather give...
During the first two years of co-residence, it seems North House was most popular, followed by South House. Hogness denies men moved to the Quad to pick up women. "The pickup mentality reflects not being able to relate to women as people...distance is needed for this, not being bleary-eyed together, brushing your teeth," he says...