Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accident that Earl Warren had been chosen to spread the gospel of friendliness, moderation and teamwork. His whole life has been geared to just those principles. An energetic, workmanlike administrator, he has always taken pains to ruffle no feelings, stick close to the middle of the road, and work in close harness with his subordinates...
...what happens to Russian dreams is the case of the Palace of the Soviets, a huge skyscraper the government started building in the early '30s. The planners chose a likely site, blew up a cathedral which was in the way-only to find that the ground they had chosen was too swampy to support the projected building. All work had to be abandoned, cranes and tools were left to rust. When Welles told these facts to a Russian girl, she said bitterly: "You are trying to blacken our dreams...
...first time since V-J Day, no veterans will register as members of the incoming class, which was chosen, according to Mrs. Van Courtlandt Elliott, director of Admissions, from "the peak postwar batch of applications...
Exceeding the speed of sound in a brief power dive is not the same thing as flying continuously faster than sound in level flight. U.S. planes are rumored to have done it too. But if they have, the military has chosen to keep...
Block in the Dark. The main trouble is that Miss Stead has chosen to write about the most loathsome and amoral characters that can be dredged up from the cocktail bars and brokerage houses of New York. She makes her scoundrelly Wall Street speculators and their women seem so real, and lets them speak for themselves at such length, that the reader has but one desire: to get away from them. By ruthlessly eliminating any suggestion of decency or honor in her money-crazed and lecherous characters, Miss Stead deprives herself of all possibilities for moral contrasts and dramatic conflicts...