Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firm. One day he laughingly suggested a personal publicity gag to Mississippi's amiable Senator Pat Harrison: "Why not mention my name where it will be heard, as a dark-horse candidate for a District of Columbia commissionership?" Pat did. Somewhat to his horror, the dark horse was chosen...
...contracted for a benefit performance of a current Broadway hit. No one had read the script, none knew that the play dealt lightheartedly with adultery. The play: "O Mistress Mine (Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne). Said a Youth Consultant: "The story isn't exactly what we might have chosen, but it's so beautifully done...
...possible, who you were. War's end and redeployment, of course, had brought a great many readers of our overseas editions home from the battlefronts, and so we thought that perhaps returned veterans were largely responsible for the increase. We decided to research the question. Louisville, Ky. was chosen as the test city, and the independent research firm of Elmo Roper went to work for us there, assigning interviewers to question TIME buyers at newsstands all over town...
...world this week were the seven members of the UNO committee to choose a site for the world capital. After 29 days of being wined, dined, high-pressured and deluged with mail by ambitious mayors and governors, they finally announced their choice - and discovered that the chosen community was aghast...
...Newly elevated to the peerage, Clark Kerr has not yet chosen his title...