Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comments on this political year that finding a candidate who carves out time for books is such a unique experience. Carter had to slow his pace of three books a week to win the Democratic nomination. But during his interlude in Plains, while waiting for his opponent to be chosen, he resumed his regular pace. "I keep three or four books going at a time," he says. He went through a biography of Teddy Roosevelt, a President he admires. He read Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns and eagerly welcomed the author a few weeks later when...
...Though he remained on various lists till near the end, his liberal image and stodgy stump style foredoomed him. Richardson missed a White House call notifying him that he had been bypassed and, as he tried to return the call, learned from a passer-by that Dole had been chosen. If Ford is elected, Richardson could become Secretary of State, but he concedes that "I may be looking for a job in November." The opposition that he evokes from the conservatives in the Republican Party makes him an unlikely prospect for a future national ticket, but Richardson has no doubt...
...soldiers now stationed in South Korea, only 160 are assigned to Panmunjom, while South Koreans patrol the rest of the DMZ. The American volunteers-specially chosen for their conspicuous brawn and even tempers-serve 13-month tours of duty at the "truce village" of Panmunjom, where 379 vituperous sessions of the Military Armistice Commission have regularly failed to accomplish anything. At a long wooden table that is half in the North Korean and half in the South Korean zone, North Korean and Chinese representatives argue fiercely with Americans representing the U.N. Command. Of the 35,000 truce violations charged...
Gierek quickly backed down and canceled the price increases. But that was only a temporary maneuver. In a show trial designed to brand the Radom protesters as vandals, six carefully chosen defendants-all had criminal records-were sentenced to four to ten years at hard labor on charges of looting and destruction of state property. At the same time nearly 700 ordinary Radom workers were hauled into summary trials held in secret. About 80% of them reportedly were given sentences of six months to five years at hard labor. Most of the others were dismissed from their jobs, which...
...interviewing the Parkers in Artist Helen Frankenthaler's Manhattan digs. The Parkers are bemused by the Volvo station wagon in the middle of Frankenthaler's studio, virtually speechless, and slowly beginning to realize that Bennington is serious about them as candidates. A month later, the couple is chosen and introduced to the students at commencement as "Gail and Tom." Scene fades as the commencement "speaker," a black jazz musician (obviously either sloshed or stoned) gets up to play a bass solo. Close-up of Gail: a look of amazement. "What have we done?" she asks herself...