Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Panditji, you are leaving us orphans!" cried a Congress Party leader last week when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru announced that he wanted to step down for a while as Prime Minister. Nehru had come to the conclusion that something was terribly wrong with his chosen instrument, the Congress Party, and that many of his aides, through self-seeking, corruption, scandals, jobbery and squabbling, had turned it into a flabby, directionless movement that is unable to win the support of the young or to counteract the wave of cynicism spreading throughout India...
...Come Along." The rebels, all members of the military police led by Colonel Hernando Forero Gómez, laid their plans with care. At 3 a.m. on the chosen night, Forero sent out police panel trucks to round up the government leaders. Major General Gabriel Paris was collected so swiftly that he rode off to military police barracks wearing pajamas and robe, but no slippers. Brigadier General Rafael Navas Pardo's sentry fired a few shots at the kidnapers, gave him time to dress in the dark and head for the back-garden wall. Just as he was about...
...growing "relaxation of fiber," and "withdrew from the struggle of life into seclusion and silence." He spent lavishly on the family seat, Blenheim Palace, beautifying the grounds but so cluttering up the interior that Horace Walpole said: "It looks like the palace of an auctioneer who has been chosen King of Poland...
...weeks pass, Sam learns all there is to learn about Stiller. He sees Stiller's old studio and pieces of sculpture, meets Stiller's friends and relations. He even meets the woman whom Stiller ran away with: she is the wife of the lawyer who has been chosen to prosecute...
...their first-choice House increased this year from 67.3 per cent to 67.4 per cent, the percentage of students who were not admitted to one of the first three choices has nearly doubled in the last two years. In 1956, ten per cent did not enter one of their chosen Houses...