Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back to the point. Two years ago, as a sophomore, I used to pick the team I always thought would win. Hence, I picked Harvard to lose three times that fall...
...Milton's poetry, is dying. As the characters in Margaret Drabble's The Ice Age grapple with the meaning of that decline, England's hard times--the "Ice Age" of the title--come to dominate their lives. IRA bombs explode, the economy stagnates and Drabble's heroes try to pick up the pieces. If most of them at the end are not much better off than when they started, the same happily cannot be said for the readers of this wry, compassionate, and suspenseful book...
Mleczko teamed up with former J.V. scoring power Ann Velie, who was just promoted to the varsity right wing spot, to pick up the faltering Harvard attack. The Crimson Stickwomen had tied three games prior to yesterday's contest with the offense failing to put out the necessary punch...
...students congregated outside the university commons and followed a city garbage truck that was completing its trash pick-ups, Henry said yesterday. "We tried to prevent it from picking up the trash and followed it for several blocks," he added...
...trust number among the more poignant encounters in the film, giving the viewer a taste of Dunn's better side. But the effect is quickly and skillfully erased when the camera shifts from her classroom to the sleazy Manhatten bars Dunn frequents each night in search of the pick-up, and Brooks cleverly alternates between these two settings throughout the length of the first hour...