Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Singer, 33, the lawyer who unseated the mayor's delegation from the Democratic National Convention in 1972. Once past Singer, Daley would probably face Republican Jim Thompson in another punishing battle. Some friends predict that he is ready instead to retire. In that case, he will need to pick a successor if the machine is to hold together. The trouble is, there is no strong candidate acceptable to all factions. In the manner of most absolute rulers, Daley has consistently chopped down all those who rose to threaten...
...agers dead and 70 wounded. Five of the wounded died afterward in hospitals. All three commandos had been shot dead inside the school. The national wound for all of Israel was almost as great. In Jerusalem, Israel's Parliament suspended debates as Knesset members hunched over transistor radios to pick up news reports. The funeral of the dead students next day was an occasion for national mourning ? and national anger. In Safad, where 10,000 people gathered as the children were buried, frantic mourners disrupted...
...faced. Apparently John had passed up a ride in the Secret Service car, jumped on his bicycle and headed off on a path where the car could not follow. A New York City parks department official groaned, "Six million people in the park, and the mugger had to pick...
Cooper's over-fifty double chin and over-the-belt bulge go well with his British accent. But, his Anglophilic decorum seems incongruous among the insistent telephone calls and the stream of ambitious go-go-booted women who curtly pick up their rejected works. "The divorcees always invite me to their homes," he complains. "I usually refuse. One woman sends me obscene letters. Once she invited me to take a bath with her. I stopped reading her letters until she started writing about all the women who were trying to get me fired. Why? Because I didn't sell their...
Salter is proud of the most expensive painting she has in the gallery, a landscape for $2500. It is a large canvas in a pseudo-Impressionist blurred style. The colors are muddy and depressing. The paint is so needlessly crusted that it makes you want to pick...