Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might be interested in my history as a swami. I began my career exactly eleven years ago this fall. My sister had a collection of buttons, all kinds of buttons--sewing, advertisements, and political. One day my sister let me pick any button I wanted. It was then the magic power first rushed to my hot little finger and I chose a red-white-and-blue Wilkie button. The die was cast, and Wendell never knew what...
Somewhere in between '64 and '68 I picked up a "Keep Chet Kowal" button. Kowal, our mayor, committed suicide shortly after a major scandal and shortly before the election. But being my pick, of course, the suicide attempt failed...
...stick with a simple running game and a passing game that produced zero yards and three interceptions in the first quarter. Eric Crone, Foster's injured counterpart, hasn't mastered the playbook any better than Foster, and both he and Foster are unhappy with Restic's refusal to pick one quarterback and stay with...
Lord and Lady Clark sampled the Harvard Student Agencies' finest Brie and exotic liquors. Clark continued to expand on the lecture topic to hordes of admirers, but wearily confessed, "I'm too old to do research. I prefer to pick people's brains...
...complex. The incidents are restricted, so that their meat is revealed without harsh imposition on attention-span. And, finally, they say something definite: they not only describe how the army deals with an unbalanced individual, but why, by design, it is incapable of doing so. Hickman is urged to pick himself up, and keep on struggling with the group: that's the only way to be a man. It is, of course, the only way the army can conceive of men. If Hickman were directed otherwise, the rhetoric he's heard since entering training camp would be deflated...