Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trigger-happy? Western experts speculate that the Soviets might have been more than normally jittery about security in the Kola Peninsula area because of an embarrassing incident that occurred a few weeks earlier: a light plane flown by a daredevil Swedish pilot landed on a lake near Leningrad to pick up three would-be Soviet defectors; although the rendezvous failed, the pilot managed to fly away scot-free...
...pick a date when the 1960s began in earnest, it might well be Feb. 9, 1964. On that Sunday night, a goofy-looking rock group from working-class Liverpool burst into the American consciousness from the stage of TV's Ed Sullivan Show. For anyone who was young then−and many who were not−life palpably shifted gears. The Beatles quickly changed the face of popular culture: they soon helped transform fashions in everything from dress and manners to politics and sexuality. Certainly the upheavals of the '60s would have occurred without the Beatles...
...young mother is fondly diapering her infant. The doorbell rings, and an old friend drops in, burbling with enthusiasm about her new job. "I'm off to the airport to pick up the ambassador from Bojo ... and then I have to cram myself into a press conference... and then I have to drag the ambassador's idiotic wife over to Yves Saint Laurent... but a girl's gotta eat. By the way, I'm off to Iran next week, so if you want a carpet just let me know ... And what about...
...less ad hoc listings, you would do well to pick up a WHRB program guide...
That 3500 students got together the week before reading period to do anything other than study for exams and write papers is nothing short of earth-shattering. Although this fervor is already diminishing as exams approach, students are likely to pick up next fall where they leave...