Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best remaining Nationalist army on the mainland, some 200,000 troops under doughty General Pai Chung-hsi, who had screened Canton for six months, was retreating westward to the general's native province of Kwangsi. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had chosen Formosa for his own last stand, though there were reports that he had at last agreed to part with some silver and gold from his war chest for Chungking's defense...
Heady Glow. As the nuptials drew near, rings were chosen, dresses fitted, attendants picked, bachelor dinners and bridal showers enjoyed. Meanwhile, there was the business of arranging for a marriage ceremony and the signing of a sheaf of papers, all undertaken in a heady glow of anticipation...
Gilbert E. Mottla '32 of Cambridge and Reginald H. Zalles of Boston, former instructor in philosophy at Harvard, were chosen as vice chairmen. John C. Palmer A.M. '42 of Somerville, Lawrence M. Jaffa 3 Div. of Pembroke, and Miss Elizabeth Russo, Radcliffe '50, of Cambridge were named to the State Executive Committee...
Final tabulations on the first Moors Hall House Committee elections were announced last night. With 104 votes cast in the two day balloting, the following officers were chosen: president, Janot Stewart '50; vice-president, Nina Emerson '50; head proctor, Eleanor Larsen '50; social chairman, Mary Jean Hazzard '50; secretary-treasurer, Mariaune Piazza '50; librarian, Helen Clark '51; fire captain, Betty Bagby '52; freshman representative, Anne Reynolds...
Where Protagonist Joseph Knecht fits into this is not as clear as it might be. He comes & goes between long essays on music, philosophy, theology, the Game and the Order. He was an orphan, was chosen for one of the elite schools, joined the Order, spent two years in China trying to incorporate Chinese thought into the Game, was sent on a sort of exchange scholarship to a Benedictine monastery, and at 37 became the youngest Magister Ludi in the history of the Order. After reaching the greatest height of the Order, he left it, and tried to return...