Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rumbling in her throat. "I forgot what to do next! I forgot the next move!" She began lumbering around the room knocking over bookcases and smashing her rare collection of African fertility statuettes which bore an eerie resemblance to the little baseball players with bobbing round heads you can pick up at highway restaurants. After she had smashed the Willie Mays and Fred Lynn figures she hurled her awesome ire blazing in my direction...
...econd half of Daedalus leaves the theme of adulthood and leaps into the future of the U.S. in general and public policy in specific. Overall the writing falls down, but the essays pick up in substance. Few articles could be more topical or crucial to the discussion of present day issues than Glazer's "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity--and Ethnicity." The article serves as a vehicle for Glazer's oft-propounded thesis that liberal policy-makers who insist that differences between races result only from discrimination will eventually polarize the nation at the expense of fraternity. He criticizes those who blast...
...From "How to Pick Up Girls--For Girls". "Now you can get the kind of girl you've always had a cruch on, like your high school Phys Ed. teacher...
Emotional Commitment. Why had the crucial testimony been withheld? Reilly's lawyer, T.F. Gilroy Daly, had an explanation: "Peter was an easy guy to pick on. He was all alone in the world at that time." Others felt that in a small community where serious crimes are rare, local officials had made a hasty, emotional commitment to Reilly's guilt that they soon found impossible to shake...
Satch Sanders and his boys will attempt to pick up an exciting win when they face CCNY at the IAB Saturday night...