Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emperor had chosen "Meiji setsu" -birthday of the Emperor Meiji, who made Japan a modern power and Shinto a war-inspiring state religion-to proclaim democracy. Tokyo's famous Meiji shrine staged a three-day festival that included a tea ceremony and geisha dances, but at the same time the government began distribution of new "democratic" photographs of the Emperor, in civilian instead of military dress. Nagasaki residents held a snake dance and a poetry contest on the subject: "Reconstruction from the Atomic Bomb...
...second half of the Friday program showed the Symphony on its brighter side, thus completing the puzzle for the audience. In the suite from the Prokofieff ballet "Chout", Burgin had chosen something off the beaten track but at the same time eminently worthwhile and interesting. The suite catches amazingly well the comic characteristics of this very humorous ballet, written by the man who must be considered the leading humorist among the world's composers. Burgin's interpretation added considerably to the effect. Here he had displayed originality of choice and accomplished performance at once...
Karson, Sellers Chosen...
...Chosen as committee chairmen were Stanley Karson '48, National Affairs; Ed Finkelstein '46, International Affairs; Charles Sellers '45, Student Affairs; Irv Telling 4G, Veterans Affairs; Arnold Corrigan '47, Finance; and Bill Berman '46, Membership. Frank Haley '45 won the organization's support for delegate to the Greater Boston Area Council of the AVC. Selected for recording secretary was Bob Fishelis '50; and for treasurer, Phil North...
...state that "a G.O.P. majority in either house of the 80th Congress will mean two years of confusion and stalemate between the President and his legislature." You should remember that most of the executive branch has been appointed by one man with the advice of personally chosen advisors. The Congress, for better or worse, is chosen by thirty to forty-five million individuals. It represents, those people. Never forget that a dominated, controlled or purged legislative body has been the rubber stamp of personal or palace guard government in Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia...