Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...previews, fashion spreads, profiles, food and home-decorating articles, and Beautiful People (BP, of course) as its diurnal sister-if somewhat fewer of them-and all written in similarly breathless prose (Jacqueline Onassis is "mystique mingled with mystery-maybe even sorcery"). About the only thing that W does not pick up from WWD is the daily's daily hamper of garment-industry news, though W does cover the nontrade side of fashion like a Big Chemise. W's fast close (stories written as late as Wednesday are in readers' hands on Friday) allows it to show spring...
Scalise said yesterday that he was disappointed with the entire team effort. "I had seen us play this poorly in practice but was hoping it would never happen in a game. We didn't get the face-offs today, we didn't pick up ground balls and we shot poorly. It just wasn't our day," he said...
...Rossini, who constantly borrowed from old operas to write new ones, and who was so cavalier about detail that if a page of his manuscript fell to the floor while he was composing, he'd write a new one from memory, being too obese to bend down comfortably to pick up the original...
...make the 10th, 11th and 12th holes in par, you'll pick up a stroke on the rest of the field. I won it all on the 12th in 1952 on the final round. I hit a six-iron into the water, took my penalty shot, and then skulled the ball into the grass bank in front of the green. It looked like a certain six or worse, but I wedged out stone-dead into the cup and saved my lead...
...their way onto a handful of small planes. Others had to be content with piecing together accounts of the war from eyewitnesses, press briefings (including weekly sessions conducted by the Viet Cong in Saigon under the terms of the Paris accords) and an infinite number of rumors. "Just pick up any hotel phone and ask for rumor service," said one correspondent wryly. Ambassador Graham Martin, never a favorite of the U.S. press corps, has discouraged his aides from talking to journalists. Said a U.S. official: "The ambassador has a bug about the American press...