Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dumped us all out of the airplane, and then they shooed us away like chickens. I had only $10 in my pocket, so I started out on foot. I walked, I thumbed rides, then I walked some more. None of those rich tourists in their big fast cars would pick me up, just ranch folks in their broken-down trucks or oxcarts...
...underscored the strengths and weaknesses of the Crimson fencing program as a whole. The foil and epee teams, which, according to coach Edo Marion, are Harvard's forte, each ran up 7-2 bouting records. In sabre, however, other than the performance of Hobbs, Crimson performers were able to pick up only two wins, barely edging MIT in the weapon...
...lifelong Republican and a federal judge since his appointment by Eisenhower in 1957, Sirica has been the chief judge for the D.C. district court for more than two years. As such, he has the pick of the cases, and he took the Watergate trial for himself. From the beginning he established control, questioning witnesses himself, sometimes effectively, sometimes...
...Stennis got out of his car shortly before 7:40 p.m. and reached back inside to pick up his overcoat and briefcase, two black youths slipped up beside him. They demanded his money, grabbed his wallet (containing credit cards and an undetermined amount of cash), his Phi Beta Kappa key from Mississippi State, his gold pocket watch and his only coin, a quarter. Although he apparently did not resist, one of the thugs then struck him, and the other said something like, "Now we're going to shoot you anyway." Stennis fell from two shots, and the attackers fled...
Confident after their narrow 20-17 victory over Springfield on Wednesday, the Harvard wrestling team hopes to pick up three straight wins when they confront Penn, Rutgers and Franklin and Marshall today...