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Word: picks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team ran a number of different defenses against the Crimson with varying degrees of success. Early in the game, they ran a full court press that had little effect but later switched to a half court press and were able to pick off several passes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Junior Varsity Basketball Squad Defeated by Boston University Freshmen | 2/11/1972 | See Source »

...first half of the third period was completely dominated by Harvard, as the Huskies began to pick up their customary late-game penalties. McManama finished off a power-play passing exhibition at 8:00, with assists going to Hynes and Corkery, and Harry Reynolds ended the scoring at 10:16, sliding a shot under Eberly after taking a pass from Rosenberger...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Crimson Hockey Team Rips Northeastern, 8-3 | 2/8/1972 | See Source »

...mentions the approach of an hour exam as if to indicate that some cursed family ghost has just entered the room. So much for authenticity. For Peter rooms with John, rich aesthete and part-time dealer who soon has the pliable Pete off on a jet to Berkeley to pick up some dope. (Question then: when is a dealer a dealer instead of a pusher? When he only goes to Harvard while financing the trips his friends make to the Coast?) And, naturally enough, once in the Promised Land, Peter meets Susan--as portrayed by Barbara Hershey, a nicely built...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Grass, Acid, Talent... | 2/8/1972 | See Source »

DEMOCRATIC FRONT-RUNNER Edmund Muskie provided Poor Richard with a clue to where he might look to pick up the needed black support when Muskie said that he would not under any circumstances run on a ticket with a black Vice-Presidential candidate because "if a black man were on the ticket, we would both lose...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Void In Spades-II | 2/8/1972 | See Source »

...then it is appropriate that a punning game should have proliferated in Manhattan's art world at this moment of its fortunes. The gimmick, according to the New York Times, was set in motion by Stephen E. Weil, an administrator of the Whitney Museum. It goes like this: pick an artist's name, then make up a question for which it is the answer. Weil's examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: All Bosch? | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

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