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Word: picks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lack of a tragic sense here. All people have problems. I have all kinds of anxieties; everybody I know has anxieties. Some of them are severe; some of them are not severe. Often they are severe at different stages of the life cycle and for different reasons. To pick on homosexuals in this particular way, as on Communists or Moslems in another, is to shortchange their option for their own personal destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Discussion: Are Homosexuals Sick? | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...your very basic big Ivy League Saturdays. There are no less than three, and no more than three, important contests today. Brown and Columbia will have a week to work out some wrinkles in their play with non-league teams Colgate and Rutgers. If all goes well, I'll pick the three big winners. I've been having closed door sessions with the magical Captain Crunch all week, and we think we've reached some reasonable decisions. I feel particularly safe in forecasting a 23-2 win for the CRIMSON over the Dartmouth Daily...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 10/25/1969 | See Source »

...hardened World War II ace who shot down 176 planes over Britain, Africa, Italy and Russia and had his face badly mangled in the last of his twelve crack-ups less than a month before the German surrender. Steinhoff took over the Luftwaffe in 1966 with a mandate to "pick up the pieces" of the Starfighter scandal. He tightened organizational control, farmed out some Starfighter maintenance to private industry, which was better equipped to handle it than the Luftwaffe, and introduced more than 2,000 design and safety changes. He also urged his Starfighter pilots to "fly, fly, fly." Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Learning to Handle The Flying Coffin | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...future lunar navigation as well as cause enough of a thud to give earthbound seismologists a good calibration test of the new lunar seismometer. Next, the astronauts will shoot a series of closeup photographs of the moon, using both ordinary and infra-red film to help NASA planners pick out landing sites for the remaining eight Apollo missions. Finally, Yankee Clipper's engine will be fired once again to begin the long, leisurely journey back to earth. Ten days 4 hr. 30 min. after it sets off from Cape Kennedy, Apollo 12 should splash down in the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Back to the Moon | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...great ability to size up the situation. a gift some people are just born with" Cornell coach Jack Musick gloated last week. "He can pick out openings in the line at full speed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marinaro Leads Nation in Rushing; Undisputed Ivy Back of the Week | 10/23/1969 | See Source »

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