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Word: picks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victories in the first four primaries achieved the alchemy. This week in Illinois, Ford is expected to score his fifth win. Next week he stands a good chance to pick up his sixth, in North Carolina. But few victories that he has ever gained were quite as reassuring to him as last week's win in Florida-a big, fast growing, variegated state that until recently had been considered Ronald Reagan country. After Ford got the news in Washington, last Tuesday night, he grinned broadly and declared, unmemorably, "All I can say is that it feels as warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: The Ford Bandwagon Rolls | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...point I'm making is this--you should pick up what swing you can from us, write out your proposals, and make them semi-public. You need a good printmaking department," she said...

Author: By Julie Wilson, | Title: VES Anticipates Good Report; Sekler to Resign Directorship | 3/20/1976 | See Source »

Sophomores and freshmen have plenty of time to pick up an extra graded course, he said...

Author: By Christopher B. Wright, | Title: Tutors Propose Solutions To Pass-Fail Honors Fix | 3/19/1976 | See Source »

...teach them something one day, and they pick it up by the next day," he said...

Author: By Martha S. Hewson, | Title: Women's Soccer Club Meets By the Glow of Midnight Oil | 3/18/1976 | See Source »

...most heated controversy that Schecter had took place over his handling of a book about Lenin. In a class one time, he placed the book on the floor, and an acquaintance warned him to pick it up, because "that book is about our great leader, Lenin." Schecter refused, and the two practically came to blows. "How can you take something like that so seriously? You're just programmed like everyone else into thinking that Lenin and communism are the most important things in the world. Why don't you wake up?" he screamed at his adversary...

Author: By Michael L.silk, | Title: A Harvard Son Writes His Memoirs On Mother Russia | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

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