Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Traditionally, the Republicans pit a Puritan Beacon Hiller against a Democrat recently arisen from Boston's South End. This year the situation has changed: for one of the two major state posts, the Democrats have nominated a fair-haired boy from the upper classes, and the Republicans have chosen two relatively unknown political hacks in their nearly hopeless campaign effort. All four candidates are united in one respect: they are mediocre...
...Chosen by the staff of 16 were John S. Pfarr, editor-in-chief; Bill O. Wright, business manager; John P. Moriarty, managing editor; Richard H. Miner, news editor; John M. Carroll, sports editor; Mary L. Denton and Linda Greenberg, Radcliffe editors; William S. Dillingham, production editor; and Roy J. Sonderling, photography editor...
...moral to be learned: "We worry a lot over the cleanliness of tablecloths and plates in restaurants and sanitation in the kitchen. This is right. But we must not forget that the most important thing is hygiene of the soul, the crystal cleanliness of those the state has chosen to serve our people." No forwarding addresses were given for Comrades Akopov, Traibman and Lopatkin...
...four lady peers this week for the first time in history took seats in the House of Lords, all eyes rested not on their faces but on their hats. The ladies had not been allowed to choose their own. Instead Sir George Bellew, Garter King of Arms, had chosen one of four designs shown him by the firm of Ede & Ravenscroft, Ltd., robemakers for the Kings of England since the coronation of James II in 1685. His selection: a tricorn lightweight black velour, ornamented on one side with a rosette of gold lace held in place with a small gold...
...Abandon prognostications on the conclave," exhorted Osservatore Romano. But in the city that once saw Popes chosen in great mass meetings of people and clergy, whose politicians often used strong-arm tactics to influence papal elections (as when Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II imprisoned cardinals to keep them from voting against his candidate), such exhortations were shouting against the wind...