Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many were stained by the purple dye which had been mixed with the water in fire hoses used to fight them off in an earlier attack on Japan's Defense Headquarters. Though students had also tried to assault the Diet building and the U.S. embassy, Shinjuku had been chosen as the major target because it is the departure point for many of the supplies sent to U.S. forces in Viet Nam. But the rioters' declared aim was to force the suspension of the U.S.Japan Defense Pact...
...Cong stronghold? No. What took place last week was a strike against speculators in Military Payment Certificates, the U.S.-issued scrip used to pay American fighting men in Viet Nam. Colonel Richmond happens to be the U.S. military command's top comptroller, and C-day was the moment chosen for a surprise conversion in the $50 million worth of MFCs in circulation in Viet...
...while at the same time an exceptionally able and disciplined actor. In his characterization, however, lies a failure of definition that badly undercuts the action of the play. Pentheus must metamorphosize somewhere along the line from a hyper-rationalist into a pathetic, obsessed figure; and Russom, or Mayer, has chosen the wrong moment for the metamorphosis. When Pentheus emerges from the ruins of his palace, razed to the ground by Dionysus, he should be a changed man, brought low like his palace and therefore susceptible to the god's vengeance. But as Mayer has staged it, the real change...
Burrell was named Ivy League Back of the Week for his outstanding defensive play on Saturday in unbeaten Penn's 19-14 victory over Princeton. It's the first time since the Ivy League was formally organized that a defensive player has been chosen Back of the Week...
...list of candidates who would definitely not be chosen President by the House under any circumstances includes George Wallace, Gene McCarthy, Eldridge Cleaver, Alan Daly, you, me, the kid on the next block, and all other announced candidates. (There's little existential meat in the outcome...