Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natural outgrowth of such a belief is the theory that trainers fix all the races so they can pick up big payoffs on their horses when they win. Beyer refutes Mr. D., and insures us that trainers are basically an honest group, not knowing any more than an astute handicapper about who is going to win a race...
Second year coach Taylor will have a chance to pick out some challenging courses for his squad. Although Taylor's not a pro (many southern schools do hire pros at great expense) the team is very high on his coaching abilities...
...preoccupied pianist rushed off to his performance, then, next morning, left with scarcely an apology for the $900 worth of damage. "We've written to his agency asking if they have insurance," says Hotel Roanoke General Manager Kenneth Wilkey. "If they haven't, well, we'll pick up the bill. He played a great concert...
That's all. The book is short like a summer; blink twice and it's gone. Thanks to the publisher for bringing it back. Now, let's have J.B. Pick's The Last Valley again. And John Graves' Goodbye to a River and Journey Into Fear. Charles Morgan's Sparkenbroke. Even Look Homeward, Angel. Riches untold, retold. Terrible risks. ∙John Skow
...admit that, despite everything, he felt unemployed. Laid off in October from his job as a steelworker, he hadn't been back to work since. Instead, he padded around the house in his bathrobe and a pair of worn argyle socks each day, getting dressed on Thursdays to pick up his unemployment check. He watched people winning thousands of dollars on "The $10,000 Pyramid" and "Hollywood Squares," rearranged the living room furniture with his wife a few times, and generally would have been more relaxed than he ever imagined he could be, had he known where his meals would...