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Word: picks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some witnesses claimed that police had provoked the conflict. A black reporter for the Johannesburg Star saw a police officer pick up a stone and hurl it into the crowd. Then, he said, "some students began picking up stones. Shouting 'Amandhla [power],' they moved haltingly toward the police. A black police sergeant was explaining to a group of parents that there would be no trouble, that the children weren't fighting, when an officer opened fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Soweto Uprising: A Soul-Cry of Rage | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...take the coastal highway north again along the savage shore, turning off at Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest to see the aptly named Rogue River, where the salmon in spring and fall fairly beg to be caught. On they drive, through the state of Washington, into Canada, where they pick up the Alaska highway that takes them to America's true last frontier. Not far from Anchorage, they get out and walk on Portage Glacier. Later they fly to Mount McKinley National Park, where they learn that 100 hardy souls are threatening this season to assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Travel '76 Rediscovering America | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...unless you sit in the grandstand with the professional gamblers and bet whether the next pitch to Ben Oglivie on a one-and-one count with two out and nobody on in the sixth will be a ball or a strike. But you might if you pick up on the dog races at Wonderland, which go on every summer night of the week except Sunday. Getting there is easy: take the red line from Harvard Square to Park, and then the blue line from Park to the last stop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Going to the Dogs | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...effort. Arlington's walls feature some crazy line-shot murals of Boston landmarks--their chief virtue being that they are placed on an angle, therefore forcing you to crane your neck. The Green Line's Riverside extension is the only subway line in America that stops so golfers can pick up their stray golf balls. Drivers on the Green Line need great dexterity--kids usually line the bridges atop the line and hail rocks down on the big green sitting ducks. The best couple of jobs in town are owned by the men who direct the second...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Notes from Underground | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...election is Portugal's third in the past 14 months, and potentially its most significant. In April 1975, the voters chose a Constituent Assembly that drafted a new constitution. A year later, they elected 263 members of a new Parliament. Now they will pick the country's first freely elected President in nearly half a century-an act that most Portuguese hope will bring an end to the tension and sporadic violence that has besieged the country since the revolution of April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Socialism With a Stone Face | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

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