Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown got off to a slow start last year with some tough losses, including a 7-6 heart-breaker to perennial antagonist Dartmouth. But the Bruins won their last four Ivy games, and things look ripe for Brown to pick up where it left...
...BACK THE BRUSH. Dry grass, brush, weeds and branches don't look very nice lying around your home. And what's more, they're dangerous. So pick the dry branches. And cut back the dry weeds and brush. So in case a fire does start near your home, you'll have a ready-made fire break...
...difficult for outsiders to assess the merits of each change Hall has made since 1971. He knows better than anyone how each of his directors operates and what they can accomplish. Weekly staff meetings and numerous individual meetings between Hall and his directors enable him to pick up quickly on their strengths and weaknesses. But it appears that Hall has not been very tactful or thoughtful in publicizing the changes or in dealing with those he has decided to oust or move. He admitted last week that, in announcing his decision on Roulliard, he could have "said things differently," especially...
...encephalitis are unique. They are "arboviruses," a contraction for arthropod-borne viruses. The arthropod that carries the virus is, in this case, an insect with jointed feet−the common mosquito−that has been particularly numerous and active in large areas of the U.S. this year. Mosquitoes pick up the arboviruses when they bite birds, which usually carry the viruses without being ill themselves, and transmit them when they feast on the blood of their next victim...
Like most subcultures, the homosexual world has its own language. To cruise is to go out looking for sex. A nellie is an effeminate fellow, and a butch a virile one. Male gays who project or seek hypermasculinity go to leather bars, often to pick up a partner for s. and m. (sadism and masochism) or b. and d. (bondage and discipline)-terms sometimes used among heterosexuals as well. Brown leather refers to either a newcomer to the leather crowd or a bar where patrons are more interested in posturing than in seeking risky sex. Trade refers to a very...