Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heck! Why not? Speculate this one through the old wisdom machine: God's chosen nation of towering indestructible infernoes blazing to the sky. The land of Milk and Honey and Twelve Foot Citizens. It could never happen in China or the Soviet Union, or any of these other knee-high, submongoloid, blankety-blank satrapies. But only in America. Subway to Freedom. Inventor of Intelligence. Home of Thomas Edison, Rutherford Hays, Popeye The Sailor Manson, Telly Sevalis, Gene Kelly, Huey Long, Richard Ward Day, George C. Patton, James Joyce, Martin Kilson, Endicott Peabody, F.W. Woolworth, and Paul Revere, just to name...
...abortion capital. Women flocked to the City; in the first two years of the law's existence, 50 per cent of all New York abortions were performed on women who resided in other states. But no matter where they came from these women were powerfully motivated: They had chosen abortion as a last way out of an untenable situation...
Editors Anne Beatts and Deanne Stillman have chosen to capitalize on two grand American institutions: political feminism, and more important (judging by the sales figures so far) the Christmas shopping season. They've gathered numerous articles from women all over the country. After reading the illiterate prose that dominates the book, Isuspect the bulk of the contributors are classmates in some rural Pennsylvania junior high school.) The articles are largely in parody form, including take-offs of Ms. Magazine, Mark Eden ads, Sylvia Plath and beauty magazines...
Many impartial critics object to the very notion of governmental agencies promoting gambling. "More instant millionaires just waiting to be chosen!" say the radio spiels for New York's Empire State lottery. THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME was the original slogan of the Michigan lottery. Now it is BE A PLAYER. In Britain, casinos and betting shops are not allowed to plug their wares...
...London. Davies' career began in a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, when he acted in troop shows. The BBC signed him in 1960 to play Maigret, the pipe-smoking French detective created by Novelist Georges Simenon. For his portrayal of Maigret, Davies was chosen British Actor of the Year...