Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cosmonaut must first wait outside the store to see whether meat is being delivered that day. Once inside, she must wait on one line to find out how much the meat will cost, another to pay for the meat and a third to pick it up. Nor can Mrs. Cosmonaut complete her shopping at one or two places, since food shops are specialized. Pravda recently complained that "a consumer would not be surprised if he saw shops selling only noodles or bay leaves...
...overburden" piles up -until the rains come. Then the mud and boulders roar downhill, snapping big trees like toothpicks and tumbling onto farms, gardens and homes in the hollows below. "I just dread the day," says Alice Slone, principal of a school in Cordia, Ky., "when I'll pick up the phone and find one of the children has been buried in a strip mine slide...
...years, Scott wandered: from a clumsy production of The Three Sisters co-starring Sandy Dennis, who drove him almost berserk with her mumbling mannerisms, to a role in a mindless service comedy with Tony Curtis called Not With My Wife, You Don't. Then, gradually, he began to pick up the pieces. He worked for the first time under Mike Nichols' direction in the Lincoln Center revival of The Little Foxes. And he appeared in what may be his finest screen portrayal, the doctor in Richard Lester's superb film Petulia...
...soon as the Nationals are over Owen will join the golf team on their Southern trip. "After hockey I need a rest, so I'll fly down to Florida for a week to pick up a suntan." He played at number three on last year's team...
...learn to live with one another and to begin to take control of our own lives. The center is not a redefinition of ourselves, but a chance to escape definition; sometimes it feels like being in Noah's are in the middle of the flood-but then you pick up a newspaper and you read about the Vietnamese winning and the Cambodians and the Laotians fighting back against U. S. aggression; and about all the support for our sisters Angela and Erika in their struggles; and the Riverside tenants fighting Harvard; and the welfare mothers; and health care centers starting...