Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daily exercises and still quaffs great quantities of a carrot-colored health drink. But for some time he has been unable to put in a full ten-hour day at his desk. He departed more gracefully than any East bloc party boss so far. He was able to hand-pick a successor whose views are as hard-line...
...think has sex appeal? asked London's Sunday Times Magazine, as it began a daisy chain of nominations with Supermodel Jean Shrimpton, 27. She picked Architect Buckminster Fuller, 75 ("I particularly like his geodesic domes"). Fuller picked Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn, 51 ("I have been unable to divest myself of an awareness-not induced by others -that she is of the opposite sex"). And so on, to Rockster Mick Jagger, 27, and his surprise choice: Actor-Author Noel Coward, 71 (no reason given). Coward, too, had a bit of a surprise for his friends. "I should have liked...
Insects are among nature's most successful experts at chemical warfare. To protect themselves against enemies, they secrete many irritating substances. Certain grasshoppers and butterflies, for example, fight their foes with toxins that they accumulate by munching on milkweed plants. Moths pick up noxious alkaloids from other plants. Now it appears that some insects have gone one step further. They have managed to incorporate into their arsenal a chemical made...
...were going 25 miles an hour in a 25 zone, and then, as we're being arrested, an officer taking his Louisville Slugger and smashing the front windshield of our van, and then slashing the tires with a knife. And coming back four hours later to try to pick up the van, and finding the police had exploded popper gas inside, and watching the cops across the street laugh as we choke. A police sergeant came up to me, "What's the matter boy?" "I ran into a little gas." "Oh, well, watch it, you could get arrested for hanging...
Writers offer their services for one main reason-money. In the words of one Harvard graduate student, who works for QBS, writing papers is "a damn good way to pick up some extra bucks. Once you learn how to dish out the shit successfully, the whole thing becomes pretty easy," he said...