Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when I want to go fast, they won't be able to go fast any more." He fears that his singers will get lost in minutae and obscure the larger shapes that he is trying to create. So he goes for the large gestures and expects his singers to pick up the notes somewhere along the way. "It's like a pickpocket school. They have these models running around at their normal speed and you have to pick things up. More and more by doing it you get the speed, so the speed ceases to be a thing that bothers...
...Cunhal's party might be forced back into the opposition if that came to pass, because, it is believed, Saraiva de Carvalho has adopted the Maoist left's contempt for orthodox, pro-Soviet Communists. Because of their discipline, however, the Communists would be in good position to pick up the pieces if Saraiva de Carvalho should be unable to solve Portugal's economic problems...
...report to the Environmental Protection Agency last week, Biologist Barry Commoner, who heads the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at St. Louis' Washington University, announced that he had perfected a test that can not only identify possible carcinogens, but may also be able to pick out those individuals most likely to develop cancer as a result of exposure to them...
JITNEY REVIVAL. Some contributors voted for jitneys-cheap, taxi-like buses that pick up passengers at designated points and deliver them to their doors in the most convenient order. Once common, they were banned in most U.S. cities in the 1920s after Intensive lobbying by the trolley industry...
...rushes through the air, Ford can pick up a radio telephone to speak to anyone in the world, his voice bouncing off a satellite. Since these conversations can be overheard by those who tune in on the right frequency, Ford also has available a teletype system whose secure method of communicating with the ground is classified top secret. In an atomic age, the President cannot afford to be out of touch for as much as a split second...