Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House used relatively small (11 by 10 by 4 in.) Sony Model 800B recorders for taping conversations in the Oval Office and the President's Executive Office Building hideaway. On such equipment it takes a malfunction, most commonly in a microphone cable, to pick up an A.C. hum, explains Irving Teibel, president of New York's Syntonic Research Inc. "This is quite common in portable recorders," he adds, but usually affects an entire tape...
Marion looks for his foil and epee units to pick up the sabres' slack. Foilers Howard Weiss and Phillipe Bennett, both returnees, have both experience and excellent style...
...learn to repress her reportorial instincts while entertaining official guests. "Obviously, when I'm sitting next to Gromyko, I can't ask him about Soviet Jews," she says. "But when lunch is over, I take off my hostess's hat, pick up my reporter's notebook, go to the press conference and ask him questions." Dignitaries are sometimes startled to see then- dining companion of a few hours earlier interrogating them in public...
...spots as hilltops, deserts, parking lots and plowed fields. Large fires at garbage dumps will also do the trick. In competition, pilots try to gain altitude by rising with one thermal, then diving to another near by. They may be detected by clouds, airborne debris, hawks or odors. "Thermals pick up the odor of the ground where they form," says Lloyd Licher of the Soaring Society of America. "If you smell cow manure or garbage at 10,000 ft., you can assume you're onto something." By using thermals alone, Hans-Werner Grosse, a German, set the world...
...last game, despite playing while injured: cornerkicking, throwing in, and applying defensive pressure at the midfield to break up Yale's attack before it reached the 50-yard line, Mario Gobbo and Tony Van Neil both saw limited action due to injuries and LaCivita was forced to pick up much of the slack...