Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natural that the war-hating military leaders, lauded in TIME (June 25), should advocate peacetime military training. Having willingly chosen soldiering for their life's work it is reasonable to suppose that they enjoy military life...
...earnest of his intentions, the Viceroy released eight Congress leaders interned since 1942, invited chosen representatives of all parties to Simla to discuss his plan. The talks proceeded briskly, but stalled on the clause granting organizational parity to Moslems and caste Hindus. Canny Jinnah balked at the prospect of being outvoted in a Hindu-controlled Council. Hastily the factions adjourned for further consideration...
...beyond the pull of the earth's gravity, they proposed to build a platform for launching rockets into interstellar space and for harnessing the sun's heat. By use of a huge reflector, like a burning mirror, they calculated that enough heat could be focused on a chosen area to make an ocean boil or to burn up a city in a flash. Their sun gun could also be used, they pointed out, to produce steam and electric power at global receiving stations...
Nightly, just after the 9 o'clock news, the ballyhoo-shunning BBC quietly introduces a speaker chosen by his party. Aside from these 30-minute talks, mention of political personalities or the campaign is taboo. Not even Churchill, who last week toured the hinterlands (see FOREIGN NEWS) , gets so much as a passing reference...
...week's end, the President still held up final approval of CAB's work. One reason: the Senate committee, which has already voted down the "chosen instrument" policy of Pan Am's Juan Trippe, intended to vote on a substitute bill to do virtually the same thing-i.e., make Pan Am the chosen instrument by barring domestic lines from international routes. It was expected that that bill would also be defeated. But if there is any more delay, most airmen expect the President to act. It would be high time...