Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston City Council adopted a proposal by Mayor Kevin H. White last night to stiffen the fines for hitchhickers and motorists who pick them...
...support was generous, considering that Helms, as a longtime Raleigh television and radio commentator, had lambasted the President (for "appeasing") almost as often as he attacked Social Security ("doles and handouts") or rural electrification ("socialistic power"). But North Carolina is undergoing a major political shift and the opportunity to pick up a Republican Senate vote was compelling. Nixon stopped off at Greensboro over the weekend to say of Helms: "I need him and I deeply appreciate your support for this fine man." Meanwhile, Helms hired the eminent conservative campaign consultant F. Clifton White. Under White's tutelage, Helms...
...Dream of the Red Chamber and Monkey. But contemporary Chinese fiction is still appallingly banal by Western standards. At the Hsin Hua bookstore in Peking's main shopping district, I asked a salesgirl to tell me which of the recently published Chinese novels was reckoned the best. "Take your pick over there," she answered unselfconsciously. "They're all the same...
...boards endlessly reeled off numbers that were rendered ciphers by the landslide. Reporters talked aimlessly with such pundits as Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. Late in the evening, even Eric Sevareid was at a loss for his specialty, the orotund, empty phrase. In desperation he began to pick the brain of Luigi Barzini, author of The Italians and a dilettantish follower of McGovern's campaign...
...Review Committee's report (which was also mailed to the entire Faculty). Guinier hopes that his constituency around the country will read his material and urge Dean Dunlop. President Bok, or their friends on the Faculty not to restructure the department. Like any politician, Guinier has attempted to pick up endorsements for his department's program. Guinier went to the recent convention of the Association for the Study of African-American (formerly Negro) Life and History and tried t politicise the meeting, by distributing his pamphlet. He claimed Tuesday night that the Association had recognised Harvard's program...