Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since kids started throwing buckets of water onto their backyards and playing pick-up games, the Edmonton area has been the breadbasket for Candadian hockey...
...easier to make out a homicide report than an arrest record. Sweeney shows up in court promptly at 9 a.m. the next day. He gets heard five hours later, and walks out to find his car gone. It has been towed. Sweeney goes to the city pound to pick it up, but it's a rented car and the registration is back home in Cleveland. Sorry, Pat: no registration, no automobile. Another harrowing fairy tale of The Big Apple to freak out folks in the countryside...
...salt water fish trucked in from along the Eastern Seaboard. Fresh water fish such as brook trout comes in from Idaho, Wisconsin and Ontario. Only one boat-a sea scalloper--comes into the market with any regularity. Men warm themselves by fires on the street corners and early risers pick their way around puddles and stacks of cartons, and stuff fish scraps into brown shopping bags. Strings of lights outline the Brooklyn Bridge until the sun rises and the surrounding skyscrapers emerge by degrees from the darkness...
Wearing skin suits for the first time this season, the Harvard women's swim team sped to some incredible performances last night, but failed to pick up important second-and third-place points in crucial events and dropped a thriller to Boston College...
...Indonesian restaurants, boasts a striking decor: a pedicab parked in the lobby, menus bound in batik, hostesses in flowing Indonesian gowns. At night, when native dancers perform, the restaurant's prices are high, but the buffet lunch is a bargain: for $5.50, guests can take their pick of dozens of spicy (skewered beef) or sweet (banana soup) dishes. For some executives from nearby oil-company offices, however, the food must have a bitter taste these days. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the restaurant was built largely with money "coerced" out of U.S. companies by the former head...