Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press table, staring evers so often into the bright television lights, and watching in amusement as the local newscasters jockeyed with one another for airtime. The excitement started at 10:30 p.m., when a Channel 5 newsman sidled up to a Crimson reporter, and whispered "we're going to pick Hicks the winner...
HICKS'S ACCESSIBILITY was confined not only to her home perctnets but to certain sectors of the media as well. The congresswoman played up to television and generally ignored radio and the newspapers. On Election Night, the quickest way to find out the vote total was to pick up the Channel 5 crib sheet or call Moakley headquarters Hicks's campaign strategists were holed up in a locked cloak room, counting tally sheets brought in periodically from the polls...
...response, the police sent a car to Sever with emergency equipment and a second one to University Health Services to pick up a doctor...
...pace began to pick up at Drinan headquarters. The results from Waltham, which Linsky had hoped to take, showed Drinan winning by 2000 votes. Immediately after the Waltham returns were posted, McGovern launched into his concession speech and everyone turned toward the television sets. The crowd remained quiet until McGovern said. "We do not rally to the support of policies that we deplore, but we do love this country and we will continue to beckon it to a higher standard." Everyone cheered. As soon as McGovern finished speaking, Drinan emerged from seclusion, strode to the front of the Tiara Room...
Steve's favorite love has long been hitting the open road to appreciate the beauty of nature. "When I was in high school, I had a pick-up truck and I used to drive it to West Virginia--that's beautiful country. I seriously thought about buying 70 acres of that land near a lake, but I didn't because the price was too high...