Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilson's strong suit has been his shrewd tactical sense-that of a cunning strategist who knew how to pick his way through, as he once put it, "political traps and minefields." Always a much more complex man than his natural ebullience and everpresent pipe suggest, he provides few glimpses of his inner self and has no close political cronies. At 58, his tastes, like his upbringing as the son of a Yorkshire industrial chemist, are unpretentious: detective stories, raspberries, a nip of brandy. Each summer, he spends three weeks in his cottage on the desolate Scilly Isles (where...
...topless-this spirit of competition. At the University of South Carolina, a streaker entered the campus library and asked to check out The Naked Ape. Responding to a Knoxville tavern owner's offer of a free supply of beer to the first coed who would pick it up in the nude, a shapely lass wearing only her makeup darted into the bar and with an armload of beer rushed out again to a waiting car. Two students staged a relay across a bridge in Portland, Me. At Princeton University, Charles Bell, a candidate for vice president of the class...
...cracked like the adobe they have stolen from the earth, these Chicanos lead a life radically different from that of most Americans. Here churchbells are prefered to the telephone's ring, John Chancellor is voted down in favor of radio music, Sundays are for praying and old women pick up trash by the roadside. Necessity is the drive behind existence...
...fumes from all the trains lingered there so it smelled very bad inside the train and David kept asking what the smell was and the electricity from the subway trains kept flickering in the dark and David wanted to know what that was too. Tom told them all to pick up 'the garbage they had left around and put it someplace--all the beer cans and sandwich wrappers. Then he turned to me and asked me what I was in New York for, he had forgotten to ask me before, he said. To write my thesis, just to hole...
...Harvard committees don't usually break with corporate management if there's a remotely conscionable way to avoid it--lack of an enabling precedent, for example. At the same time, if Harvard agreed to ACORN's request, it might set a precedent for the future. Any activist group could pick out a company Harvard owned stock in and ask Harvard to play a leading role in opposing its policies citing the ACORN case. This bureaucratic nightmare must have taken on new, terrifying credibility in the months after ACORN's request, as a whole batch of utilities in which Harvard owned...