Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both sides of Markos' stronghold area, and were beginning to draw the neck strings of the bag in which they hoped to catch him. Said Van Fleet: "We are trying to find a soft spot in the guerrilla lines." The general's unconscious "we" was well-chosen: Coronet was the big test of what the Greeks could do with the help of Harry Truman's Doctrine...
...British papers, but even Miss West seemed a little out of breath. "I cannot see these demonstrations . . . these sudden bursts of songs and dance as undignified or irrelevant," she wrote. "That is what they used to do in the Middle Ages when Kings and Popes were chosen . . . Well, now you are choosing a President, and the people are just as excited . . . Almost nothing in this convention seems as good as the people, the ordinary people...
...Folke Bernadotte was offered a mediation job. Two local soccer teams, the Dorics and Diagonos, both claimed the Rhodian championship, and the local one-sheet newspaper suggested that Bernadotte compose the quarrel. (Bernadotte was too busy.) Apart from that, all was serenity in the Dodecanese island which Bernadotte had chosen for his Palestine peace talks. Governor General Nicholas Mavris welcomed correspondents, many straight from embattled Palestine: "Now you have been able to discover an oasis of peace...
...within his chosen limits, Olivier and his associates have done excellently-from grandiose poetic conceptions (e.g., the frightfully amplified heartbeats which introduce the Ghost) to clever little captures of mood (e.g., the cold, discreet clapping of gloved hands which applaud the half-drunken King). The film is built with a fine sense of form and line, and some of the editing worked out very well. Hamlet's big scene with Ophelia (Get thee to a nunnery) comes immediately before, rather than after, his most famous soliloquy (To be, or not to be). Thanks to this transposition...
...fact that they are the most interesting part of The Gathering Storm, make it seem possible that in the future his absorption with the navy will seem his greatest limitation; perhaps it was the one quality that distorted his rounded view of the war. His personal anecdotes are sparingly chosen and are as illuminating as the stories that have carried across the centuries in the histories of Caesar and Tacitus...