Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grenadiers in fearsome mitred helmets, the Scottish Black Watch regiment resplendent in tartan kilts. Almost as one, the Continentals opened with a fusillade of musket and rifle fire. The British responded with a volley of their own. The smoke cleared. A Red Cross truck lumbered across the field to pick up the fallen, all of them victims of heat exhaustion...
...have survived our own Bay of Pigs in Africa. The struggle continues, the victory certain. Fatherland or death!" They march in military fashion from their classrooms to their dormitory, and from there to nearby citrus groves to pick grapefruit...
...Cuba's civilian contingents abroad "looked like a kind of correctional institution, filled with delinquents, undesirables, homosexuals-even Jehovah's Witnesses. That was a distortion of our purpose. Some people falsified their papers or exchanged papers with their comrades so that they could go. Now we can pick and choose carefully, since we have no difficulty getting volunteers...
...growing U.S. phenomenon that American families find more and more intolerable. As the single-family house becomes a more prohibitively expensive American dream, more young families are forced to live in apartments. In cities with a low vacancy rate like San Francisco (2%) and Los Angeles (3%), landlords can pick and choose among tenants. Increasingly, the choice is "adults only." Such restrictions suit older couples who have raised their children, like quiet and do not want to trip over roller skates on the landing, as well as many singles who feel the mere presence of children will cramp their swinging...
Equally shocking are the voices of the hoodlums. They seem at first to be speaking another language, easily recounting acts of aggression and mayhem that might give even hardened criminals pause. Asked why an ice pick was his preferred weapon in a previous assault, a thin, pale, seemingly fragile boy chuckles and answers, "Internal bleeding." The more they talk, the less monstrous they become: "I wouldn't mind goin' to school if I knew how to read . . . My dreams scare me ... I want somebody to know I been here . . . I can't do nothing...