Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian zone, political reorganization was speeded up. To German provincial administrations chosen a fortnight ago (TIME, July 16), Marshal Georgi Zhukov last week added carefully picked county administrations (Landratsdmter). The reason given for the Russian haste was the harvest. A winter of famine faced the Germans. Crop forecasts were 45% below normal, and even that figure might be cut by a shortage of harvest hands, sickles, binding wire. All political organizations, said the Berlin press, were helping to draft thousands of Berliners for the farms of Brandenburg...
...onetime driver of the crack Sydney-Melbourne express became Prime Minister of Australia last week. By a 3-to-1 vote, Joseph Benedict ("Chif") Chifley was chosen by the Parliamentary Labor Party to succeed the late John Curtin...
Pittsburgh is the chosen scene of industrial empire and industrial strife; the steel-made fortune of the Scott family is cast together with the steel-made poverty of ironworker Pat Rafferty and family. The rise of Scott-hating Rafferty's daughter Mary as a maidservant in the Scott home, eventually to marry into the family, serves to weave the two sides of the railroad track into one history...
...last week finally laid down, for the world to see, its postwar international air policy. The policy: regulated competition on international routes, instead of a chosen instrument. Without waiting any longer for Congress to act, President Truman approved the choice of the Civil Aeronautics Board for airlines to fly the Atlantic. As expected (TIME, July 9), the routes were granted to Pan American Airways, Transcontinental & Western Air, and American Export Airlines; American Airlines got permission to buy control of American Export Airlines...
Edmund Wilson has chosen the pieces for The Crack-Up so carefully that they lead in a straight, chronological line from Fitzgerald's youth and glory to his maturity and misery. Every aspect of his life and work - the brilliant, the second-rate, the real, the illusory - is shown. Readers may differ on the question of Fitzgerald's survival value, but they will respect Author Wescott's statement that Fitzgerald's life and fate mirrored the life and fate of a whole period of American life. "He was our darling, our genius, our fool. ... He lived...