Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pick one performance as a key to our win," Gambril said, "it had to be Greg Huff's third-place finish in the 1000-free. Greg has been working extremely hard all season but hadn't placed, and it was great to see him pick up a crucial point for us," he added...
...defense -those will be big issues in the months ahead. The U.S. is determined to allocate its resources more carefully in future, to sharpen its competitive edge in world trade, and to renounce the role of global gendarme. The question is whether European leaders will be willing to pick up more burdens shed by the U.S. and make further concessions as a price for economic stability...
...Hastings Plimpton served as president of Amherst College, he brought a healer's touch to the liberal arts school in more ways than one. He used a calm, fatherly approach to the academic and financial problems that confront all college presidents, and when medical needs arose, he would pick up his black bag and make house calls around town. Now, as president of the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, Plimpton still makes house calls of a kind. Since his arrival in August, he has dropped in on faculty members, students and neighborhood...
...several occasions in the past decade, radio astronomers have been startled to receive signals that seemed to signify an extraterrestrial intelligence. By 1960, when scientists led by Frank Drake in an operation called Project Ozma used the radio telescope at Green Bank, W. Va., in an attempt to pick up signals from nearby stars, they detected regular pulses that were later presumed to be emanating from a secret U.S. radar experiment. In the mid-1960s, a Russian astronomer detected varying signals from a mysteri ous radio source; Tass breathlessly reported that the signals were a beacon from a supercivilization...
...removed from the democratic process. If even one House had complied, there would have been enough students judges to keep the Committee running throughout the Spring. However, every Harvard and Radcliffe House submitted the decision to a student referendum. And in each House, the students voted to refuse to pick the panels...