Word: chosen
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...many modern religions can claim the distinction of being denounced by a major European government as "socially harmful ... a potential menace to the personality" and "a serious danger to health." Yet those were the words chosen by Britain's Health Minister Kenneth Robinson when he took the floor of the Commons last month to censure the little-known and less understood Church of Scientology...
Just after he had concluded his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention, Richard Nixon was collared by a reporter. Was Mr. Agnew surprised when he was chosen to be Nixon's running mate, the reporter wanted to know. Indeed he was, said Nixon. Only one reporter had suggested that he might be picked. "The only indication he had that he might have been considered was a story some months ago by Dave Broder." Nixon was referring to the national political correspondent for the Washington Post...
Curt Canning, captain of the crew and one of the six members of the group formed earlier this summer, said yesterday that the group will send out personal letters to the basketball team and to the part of the equestrian team which has been chosen. Most of the trials for the more than 500 Olympic berths will be held during the next two weeks...
...been particularly elusive, placing some enemy manpower far out side immediate fighting range; this could be in anticipation of an extended lull, or it could be simply for safe refitting and regrouping. In fact, the evidence is ambiguous, and as with Hanoi's unenlightening silence, the Administration has chosen to interpret it pessimistically. If there is more fighting, both sides will try to use it to improve their bargaining positions in the peace that must eventually come...
...Frankfurter," McCloskey said, "during most of his tenure went against the main trends of Court opinion. Douglas has been disinclined to spend time producing decisions that close legal loop-holes, and Black, for reasons obscure to me, has chosen a method of opinion writing that is assertive rather than explanatory...