Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even when I took to reading the United Nations Report to large crowds," Abrams said, "the Russians had a difficult time believing that a whole series of events happened in Hungary which their government had deliberately chosen to hide from them. But they listened with avid interest to every word. And from all the later reports and reactions, I gathered that they passed the word along the grape-vine...
...chosen one-act play will be performed...
Agreed that "all identity discs in heaven are marked RC," but with all respect to the late Monsignor Knox, his Protestant brethren think it means Redeemed Christian. The Jew wears his happily as one of the Returned Chosen, while the Buddhist feels he has Realized Contentment. For the Hindu it simply indicates he is a Reincarnation Candidate until he has Reached Completion...
...midst of 280 landscaped acres of rolling Connecticut countryside five miles northwest of Hartford, the blare of bands and cheers of a crowd wall officially dedicate the new $19 million gleaming glass, aluminum and marble headquarters-in-the-country of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. Already chosen by the American Institute of Architects as one of the "Ten Buildings in America's Future." it is not only a splendid example of the precisely machined modern elegance in which U.S. architects lead the world, but is likely to become the most honored building of the year...
...appointed lot of some of History's chosen few to come upon the scene at the moment when a great tendency is nearing its crisis and culmination. Specially gifted with qualities needed to realize the fullness of its possibilities . . . they thenceforth personify to the world the movement which brought them forth." These famous opening words to The Life of Nelson (1897) by famed Naval Historian-Philosopher Alfred Thayer Mahan contain the gist of Rene Maine's new study of the most decisive moment in French and British naval history. Unlike...