Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Animal House contains every college stereotype you can think of, from the frigid WASP princess who takes her rubber gloves along on jaunts to lover's lane to the self-styled Casanovas, who try endlessly to perfect their pick up routines. All of them take their lumps at least once, with almost everyone getting it or dishing it out in the screamingly funny, bangup ending...
...June Peking dispatched two ships from Canton to pick up "victimized Chinese nationals" at Vietnamese ports. The ships, which were never allowed to dock, are being recalled to China?empty. Despite all the invective, both countries have agreed to resume discussions of their differences in Hanoi next week. Foreign observers, however, doubt that the low-level talks will do much to resolve what appear to be the real reasons for the neighborly conflict: Hanoi's anger at Chinese support for Viet Nam's hostile neighbor, Cambodia, and Peking's fear of expanding Soviet influence in Viet...
...might actually get a chance to see the Red Sox in the (all too human) flesh in the middle of next week, when the Cleveland Indians gallop into town for a three-game set at Fenway. Normally it's a real challenge to pick up a Sox ticket these days, but the Tribe is so amateurish they've been invited to send a delegation to the Olympics, so don't sweat it. Rumor has it that Bowie Kuhn actually forgot Cleveland is still in the major leagues, and the team certainly hasn't done much to correct that impression. Look...
...averages have caught up, in a big way. When the Sox score only two runs in three games at Fenway and manage only one hit off the Wall in that span, they are in big trouble. Only some magnificent pitching and the Brewers' seeming reluctance to pick up games has kept the Sox out in front...
Learn all the technology, says Heitz, who got his own lessons working for a succession of California vintners and picked up the scientific nuances by studying and teaching oenology at California colleges. Don't give in to adversity, he adds. In his first year on his own, he was struck by an almost biblical series of plagues: early frost, freakish heat, then hepatitis. Friends in the valley pitched in to help him pick and press his crop. "You know," he muses, "people like to see you succeed. People like to see a family working together...