Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard, meanwhile, found its formerly potent offense sputtering. The second half saw McInally pick up only one reception, and Holt complete just 4 of 12 passes for 42 yards...
...about the antics of that hilarious funster who was trying to pick up a football, but kept on kicking it away from himself. Up and down the field he went, and the ball just kept eluding him. I just couldn't help myself. Paralyzed with laughter...
Newsmen clustered outside the gates of San Clemente were able to pick up only a few crumbs of information. For a while, television crews tuned in on walkie-talkie conversations between Secret Service men patrolling the grounds, including regular reports on the whereabouts of "Searchlight," as Nixon is code-named. Then the Secret Service got wise and all that the TV crews could hear was an electronic hissing. But newsmen did learn that Nixon was still driving a golf cart to his office a short distance from the house. He was seen in the swimming pool and walking about...
Regional nationalism, a once quixotic movement that has intensified and turned serious in the past three years, could also prevent a Tory or Labor majority. The Welsh nationalists currently have two members in the House and could pick up a third. The Scottish National Party, which won 22% of the vote in Scotland last February, now has seven seats at Westminster; some observers believe that they could double that number next month. Labor and the Conservatives are both trying to cut into the Scottish Nationalists' constituency by promising an impressive range of public-works projects for Scotland. Moreover...
...same time is easier than thinking, but it's less helpful in understanding what's going on. So stories focus on things that don't matter much, and when that becomes clear they shift to things that matter even less, from Ford's alleged slowness to his willingness to pick up his own newspaper. And when reporters discover the same man they're been billing as an exemplar of truth-telling telling lies about Chile, they don't know how to account for it: all they can do is change their line. Because they share Ford's false assumptions...