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Word: chosen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mars or not--the choice has been made. You can see it in our literature; you can see it reflected in the increasing use of drugs; you can see it in self-conscious (and, perhaps, selfish) catharsis for guilt and boredom like the occupation of University Hall. We have chosen like the streets of our own minds over the highways to the stars...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: The Best of Sci Fi | 6/10/1969 | See Source »

...Great Debate about the League took place on March 19, 1919, between President Lowell '77 and Henry Cabot Lodge '71, Senator from Massachusetts. Over 100,000 people applied for tickets for the 2900 seats in Symphony Hall and the winners were chosen by lottery. Lodge offered five "constructive criticisms," the first of which was that the League "should be redrafted and put into language that everyone can understand...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: The Class of 1919 Comes Home | 6/10/1969 | See Source »

...when the 101st discovered them and moved to dislodge them. Ap Bia, replied the adviser, fell into a "gray area"-it was one of the few times in the war when the U.S. had been able to make opposing troops fight when they had not chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: REBUTTAL OF HAMBURGER HILL | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...points ahead. Both surveys, however, indicated a large undecided vote. The trouble with any poll involving a Negro candidate, of course, is that many of those interviewed are reluctant to admit to racial prejudice. Some who succumbed to Yorty's argument and their own fears may have chosen not to say so when they were confronted with the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: Bitter Victory | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

President Nixon has chosen a Business School Professor to be the new Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Logistics. He will be in charge of Army bases and installations all over the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Gets Defense Post | 6/2/1969 | See Source »

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