Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brock is considered the best offensive lineman in the draft. He scatters opposing linemen with his blocks and hits his punter on the numbers with every long snap. "If an expansion team wants a thinking big man to start building an offense around," claims one scout, "Brock is the pick...
Hoping to pick up advertisers who would no longer be able to afford TIME Canada, the editors of Maclean's, the nation's largest monthly (circ. 900,000 in English-and French-language editions), acted two months ago to capitalize on the situation. They transformed their English-language edition into a biweekly newsmagazine. The new Maclean 's has a circulation of about 750,000 (v. TIME Canada...
...Crimson's fortunes in the mile will rest firmly on the shoulders of freshman sensation Pete Fitzsimmons, an All-Ivy harrier in the fall. Classmate Scott Dobson and Jeff Campbell will be called upon to pick up a two-mile attack impaired by the absence of distance staple Stein Rafto, sidelined with...
...humorous character it was his business to laugh at him...Mr. Tree wants only one thing to make him an excellent Falstaff, and that is to get born over again as unlike himself as possible. No doubt in the course of a month or two, when he begins to pick up a few of the lines of the part, he will improve on his first effort; but he will never be an even moderately good Falstaff...All this is hopeless, irremediable...
...RELATION TO characters who have no self-knowledge whatsoever, Allan appears sympathetic and likable. He may seem a little klutzy attempting to pick up a woman in the Museum of Modern Art, but in contrast to her he is perfectly comprehensible...