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He picked up the nickname " Andy " at Cornell, where tradition confers that moniker on any male student surnamed White, after Cornell co-founder Andrew Dickson White.
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He cleaned his shovel, left it against the fence, picked up his Winchester, and started downstream.
He picked her up, sliding one hand under her shoulders, the other under her knees, and carried her into the house.
He picked up the powder canister and ran out.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
Curt moved in and picked up his gun.
He stooped, picked up his ruined hat, and pursed his lips thoughtfully.
Artie had picked up a snorkle and was twirling it on his forefinger.
Charles said as they picked their way over the rocky road which led up the hill away from the Dixie Highway, through a corn field and a patch of woods to the school.
They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.
What obsessions had she picked up during these long nights of talk??
From his playmates in Savannah, Mercer had picked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces also of the Gullah dialects of Africa.
He would ship by rail five pounds per day per animal and the other fifteen pounds that were needed could be picked up off the country.
She had been picked up by the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage.
She escaped, crawled through the usual mine fields, under barbed wire, was shot at, swam a river, and we finally picked her up in Linz.
Both Willy Brandt's Social Democrats, who gained 22 seats in the new parliament, and the Free Democrats, who picked up 23, will insist on that before they enter the government.
To avoid suspicion of bigotry, let the hand of vengeance be stayed until the meat-wagon has picked up the twenty-five thousandth corpse ; ;
His stethoscope was on the table by Scotty's bed and he picked it up and wagged it at Scotty.
She smoothed the covers on Scotty's bed and picked things up from the floor.
`` She didn't really say '' -- She glanced away at the floor, then swooped gracefully and picked up one of Scotty's slippers.
When he had stored his stock in the great oak chest, locked the two big hasps and secured the additional chain, tied the fly of the tent, and picked up the cash box, he moved up the darkening street.
Martha picked up the hem of her gown and with eyes closed she slowly began to dance a stately minuet around the ballroom.
He picked up the photograph and began to wrap it.
I look like an old man, compared '', and he had picked up his photograph with the red Christmas bow still on it.
Photograph shows the wrong side of work with light strand being picked up under dark strand in position to be purled.
picked and nickname
During this time, he picked up the nickname ' pork chops ' because it " was the only thing I knew to order off the menu.
During this time, he picked up the nickname " Black Jack ", which has been variously attributed to his dark hair and stubble, to his " ruthless " approach on the track, and to his " propensity for maintaining a shadowy silence ".
He picked up his famous nickname from his friend Bobby Hofman who said he resembled a Hindu yogi whenever he sat around with arms and legs crossed waiting to bat or while looking sad after a losing game.
The odor is strong enough to be picked up by humans, which earns the peccary the nickname of skunk pig.
McGee is very proud of past deeds, sometimes recalling an interesting nickname he picked up over the years.
Although he was still known as David Jackson while in Arms & Legs, it was around this time that Jackson picked up the nickname " Joe ", based on his perceived resemblance to the puppet character Joe 90.
It was while stationed in New Mexico and fighting in a skirmish with Indians that Joseph Wheeler picked up the nickname " Fighting Joe.
In 1979, an out-of-state columnist, Mike Royko, at the Chicago Sun-Times, picked up on the nickname from Brown's girlfriend at the time, Linda Ronstadt, who was quoted in a 1978 Rolling Stone magazine interview humorously calling him " Moonbeam ".< ref >
Philippa is believed to have picked up the nickname “ Philippa Pan ” while working at Elizabeth of Ulster ’ s household.
Instead, he drifted into the transport business on the Ohio and Mississippi -- and quickly picked up a new nickname: " the Snapping Turtle.
The nickname of Maroons was eventually picked up by the media after the colour of their jerseys.
The nickname " Bayan " was picked since it stands for nation or community in Filipino.
While in Philadelphia, Afanasenkov picked up the nickname " The Shark ", scoring 15 points ( 8 goals, 7 assists ) in 41 games with the Flyers.
It was around this time that Schalke picked up the nickname Die Knappen – from an old German word for " miners "– because the team drew so many of its players and supporters from the coalmine workers of Gelsenkirchen.
It was, therefore, included as part of the 1998 Ultima Collection where it officially picked up the nickname Ultima 0.
Later, the University picked up the nickname with the first University yearbook bearing the name " Gopher Annual " appearing in 1887.
Little is known of Tenma's childhood apart from that when he was growing up in Japan, he was picked on and wet himself ; this earned him the nickname " Sissy-pants Tenma ".
A pair of the Western Pacific's Budd Rail Diesel Cars ( RDCs ), operating as replacements for the discontinued Royal Gorge ( trains No. 1 and 2 ) between September 17, 1950 and October 2, 1960 also picked up the nickname " Zephyrette.
Later, the University picked up the nickname.
During this period, the team picked up the affectionate nickname the Busby Babes, because of the youthfulness of many of the players he fielded.
It was during his time at Inter where he picked up the nickname " Maradona of the Bosphorus ", after comparisons of playing style to the Argentine legend.
The nickname was solidified when Frank Howard received what came to be known as " Howard's Rock " from an alumnus, S. C. Jones, who had picked it up in Death Valley, California.
While playing for Bayern Munich he picked up the nickname Das Phantom ( the Phantom ), for his ability to score out of nowhere.
He also picked up the nickname ' Batman ', because the famous theme song was played at Philips Stadion every time he scored.
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