Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the bottom of the third, the Red Sox had men on first and third. Expos pitcher Steve Renko tried to get out of the situation by faking a pick-off to third and then wheeling around and throwing to first. The move didn't work. Outfielder John Balaz, who sat in the bullpen most of the game, said that the move was the same one used by some Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers. "The Dodgers use that, especially in the minor leagues," Balaz said. Less than one week later, the Sox gave Balaz the opportunity to see that move again...
Reagan's campaign is in serious trouble. His treasury is $650,000 in the red. April promises to be a cruel month in which Ford will pick up most of the 302 delegates at stake in New York, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Not until the Texas primary on May 1 does the challenger have much chance to win again...
...where Republicans will elect 45 delegates on April 6. New York holds a primary that same day; all of the state's 154 delegates will not be bound officially to any candidate, but most of them are expected to support Ford at the convention. He also stands to pick up most of the 103 delegates in Pennsylvania, where he is unopposed in the April 27 primary. In addition, Ford has decided to work harder for the support of 451 delegates from nonprimary states in the South, Middle West and Rocky Mountains. Aides have recommended that he make personal appeals...
...pictorial spreads on bondage, and February's Penthouse featured 13 pages of S-M pictures, including one of a female sadist stabbing a spiked heel into the eye of a bound woman. "Bondage is where the action is," a Playboy editor admits, "but we've been slow to pick...
Nixon's pal Bebe Rebozo even sent a private jet to New York to pick up Mor row and fly him to Key Biscayne for a discussion with Haig and others. The idea was to ease Ziegler into a position at the U.S. Information Agency. Like so many other desperate plans that were considered in the dying days of Nixon's presidency, it came to nothing...