Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stepped down because I want to show I am no dictator." He scoffed at the idea (aired last week in the New York Times) that he was resigning so that some Iraqi premier less hostile to Nasser might negotiate a rapprochement with Egypt and Syria. Said Nuri: "Egypt has chosen to go with the Russians, we with the West. There can be no real improvement in our relations until one or the other changes policies, and we are not going to change ours...
...governors and generals-plus a long and lonely conversation with himself. The winner's name will gradually leak out, and he will be nominated when the all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) meets late this year. On the first Sunday of July 1958, Mexico will elect the chosen man. By last week political insiders could furnish a clear profile of this man, and were offering shrewd guesses as to his name...
Citation: "We salute the chosen one of a favorite sister...
...York metropolitan area. The station's simple yet radical idea: spare the listener the sound of the human voice, except at decent intervals, i.e., no oftener than every 15 minutes through the day and every half-hour in the evening. In between. WPAT. plays carefully chosen, well-groomed music, mostly the massed strings and muted brass of the Mantovani-Kostelanetz style, nothing more popular than show tunes or more classical than a Brahms waltz...
...Since they could hardly expect to expose him to all of the literature written in English in a mere four years, it was clear enough to him that they were aiming at directed selection. But why it was not likely that he should discover more in selections chosen by himself on the grounds of personal preference, this was hard...