Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Their [B.U.'s] goaltender was the key," coach Billy Cleary commented yesterday. "The kids played well, we have nothing to be sorry about. We outshot them, and when you can hold B.U. to only 19 shots you're doing well. If I had to pick somebody who was the key to the game, however, it would be Walsh...
...Christie and Sociologist Jay Schulman for selecting un prejudiced juries. Although their major successes involved cases brought by the Nixon Administration against such radicals as the Gainesville Eight and the Harrisburg Seven, Stans instructed his lawyers to get in touch with Christie, who expressed interest. However, his promise to pick a fair but not necessarily winning jury failed to impress Stans' codefendant, former Attorney General John Mitchell, and the deal was called...
...does not play favorites. Tabarly, a navy commander, was barely halfway to Capetown when his titanium mainmast collapsed. By radio, Tabarly ordered a new spar. Under jury rig, he headed for Rio, 1,200 miles away, to pick it up. The 82-ft. mast, fabricated in Switzerland, had to be cut in two to fit into a French military jet. Meanwhile Blyth, a former paratroop sergeant, was learning that $350,000 worth of sleek boat does not necessarily go fast when manned by a crew of paratroopers with little sailing experience...
...this time, a friend of the man under attack had come running down the street to help out his buddy. The two of them--we were now close enough to hear--yelled at the drunk to pick up his girlfriend, who lay motionless on the sidewalk. The drunk half spat, half choked, "Nobody's gonna touch my girl and get away with it." He tried to kick the first man in the groin. By this time, we had reached the girl...
Under the abandoned property law, the Coop must hold all unclaimed rebates for 14 years. If they remain unclaimed after that time, the rebates must be turned over to the Treasury Department where they will be kept until the owners pick them up. However, in the minutes of a Coop board of directors' meeting held on January 30, Howard W. Davis, Coop General Manager said that unclaimed rebates from the year before are credited to the current year's business...