Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bahu, which means that the children of the village are the first in its history to be able to get an education. "At first we thought the school would ruin us," said one middle-aged fellah. "We need the children to go into the fields in the spring and pick the eggs of the cotton worms before they hatch. With all of them in school instead of in the fields we were in danger of disaster. But the government agreed to change the school term. Instead of ending in midsummer, the way they do in the cities, out here...
...little as $20 in 1976. Another reason why some people like digitals, according to a watch-company executive, "is that it makes them feel powerful-at the push of a button, they can command the time." Says Manhattan-based Writer Jon Borgzinner: "I like it because when I pick it up at night I don't have to figure out from the dial if it's ten of six or two minutes before four; it simply tells...
...wonderful in the eyes of the innocent. If there is any truth to this notion, Ben Shahn's photographs should be taken as the finest sort of proof. Shahn was not a photographer by profession, but the photographs which he made on the occasions when he did pick up a camera are graceful, articulate and humorous in the most sophisticated of ways...
After Virginia and a little bit of North Carolina, anyway, you're in the Deep South, where the woods and farms look a little more gagged than before. You can stop at the cigarette factories in Durham for entertainment, and pick up your free pack of cigarettes, or drive off the Interstate and check out small-town grocery stores for local color. There are great peach stands in Georgia, and a huge amusement park outside Atlanta, a city that has resolved its existential dilemmas through relentless financial growth and self-promotion. Everyone in Atlanta is happy and young, pink-cheeked...
...Brandeis Judges slowly took charge, and led 40-39 at the half. According to Crimson guard Glenn Fine, Harvard did not play good defense during most of the game. The cagers did not work as a unit or pick up loose men, so the Judges were gifted with "an inordinate number of back-door plays and cheap buckets," Fine said...