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Word: picks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...results demonstrated again that New Hampshire voters, however small their number and however untypical their own state might be, managed to pick and choose shrewdly among the candidates. Reported TIME Senior Correspondent John Steele: "The candidates were talking about serious issues with considerable forthrightness and a minimum of humbug," while the voters were "listening rather closely, asking serious questions and getting serious answers." Nevertheless, the issues were not defined as clearly as they will be in the shakedown process of later primaries. Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton saw the nation's "quirkiest, contrariest and most stubbornly individualistic voters" making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: On to the Showdown in Florida | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...recession and inflation at home and abroad. Financing difficulties have postponed a trade mart in Paris and a hotel for Times Square in New York City. How much he is hurting no one knows, since privately held companies do not make their financial statements public. But business should pick up as the economy improves, for the market seems to like his product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Building Fantasies for Travelers | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Harvard should do well in the individual medleys (200 and 400 yards) and in the backstrokes (100 and 200 yards). The Crimson does not really have anyone to fill the spots vacated by Yntema in the butterfly and by Fullerton in the breaststroke and is not expected to pick up many points there...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Swim Team to Vie for Eastern Crown | 3/4/1976 | See Source »

Harvard's performance should brighten on Saturday. The Crimson could easily pick up points in every event (1650 free, 100 free, 200 back, 200 breast, 200 fly, three-meter diving, and 400 free relay), except the breaststroke...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Swim Team to Vie for Eastern Crown | 3/4/1976 | See Source »

After graduating from West Point in 1957 and serving in the Green Berets, Malek attended Harvard Business School. "I had the good judgment to pick Harvard and Harvard had the good judgment to pick me," Malek will tell...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Mr. Malek Comes to Harvard | 3/3/1976 | See Source »

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