Word: chosen
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Each of the drives will retain its own chairman, but an overall "drives chairman" will be chosen by a council sub-committee to coordinate the activities. The overall chairman will serve as a member...
...congressional races, they hope to re-group after November and form a left, reform faction within the party. The goal is to organize in each city and town to control as many votes as possible at the June, 1970 party convention whcih nominates constitutional officers. Convention delegates are chosen by the town and city party committees...
Unless he is an elector, no American votes directly for the "President of his choice." Instead, voters in each state decide between slates of opposing electors chosen by the contending parties. In Kansas, for example, voters who put their X beside Richard Nixon's name this Nov. 5 will actually be choosing seven Republicans, among them Dean S. Evans Sr., 47, a Salina grain and cattle dealer and regular party contributor. Kansans who prefer Hubert Humphrey will actually vote for seven Democrats, including Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark Gray, 68, a Topeka bank president and U.S. Treasurer under Harry Truman...
...gunned. So many still seek to escape the reign of terror by suicide that the Chinese have strung barbed-wire barricades along the banks of the Kyichu (River of Happiness) to keep people from throwing themselves in. At least 80,000 Tibetans, including the god-king Dalai Lama, have chosen exile. Another 200,000, including his deputy, the Panchen Lama, have been imprisoned or enslaved in forced-labor brigades...
...Chosen Nation. What does it take to build an empire? Will to power? Greed? Not in De Riencourt's book. Historically, the true empire builder, he thinks, is motivated by "an idealistic longing," a faith in universal law, a passion for a "common culture." He is more in the spirit of a missionary than of Genghis Khan. De Riencourt quotes Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana speaking half a century ago: "God has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has marked the American people as his chosen nation to finally...