Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly everyone recalls, while President Dwight David Eisenhower was putting on the White House lawn, reported flying-saucer sightings became almost as common as Studebakers. Dozens of books and articles were generated by the UFO phenomenon. A chosen few earthlings even claimed contact with extraterrestrials. Descriptions varied, from garden-variety little green men to simple aliens who resembled Italians dressed like Greyhound bus drivers. Reactions to UFOs usually depended on one's interests, angst and reflexes. While the jittery Air Force launched a top-secret investigation to prove whether or not the saucers were real, Psychoanalyst Carl Jung groped...
...blunt note from a capital that was not even represented at the Games: Peking. The mainland Chinese, who had stalked out of the International Olympic Committee in 1958 over the issue of Taiwan's representation, warned the Canadians that allowing the Taiwanese to attend the Olympics under their chosen name, the Republic of China, would violate the terms of Canada's recognition of Peking. (In 1970, Canada recognized the People's Republic, whereupon Taiwan severed ties with Canada.) Canada agreed -while balking at further Peking pressure to oust the Taiwanese entirely...
...states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, TIME correspondents assessed the struggle this way, as of week's end: 1,104 delegates for Ford, 1,090 for Reagan, 65 uncommitted. The figures (see chart) include projections of delegates to be chosen this week in Utah and Connecticut. Avowedly uncommitted delegates known to lean strongly toward one candidate have been credited to their favorite...
...moved from her fallopian tube and was floating freely, but it had not yet become implanted in the uterine wall, where there would have been more difficulty in removing it. The fertilized egg was then implanted in the uterine wall of a second female that had been chosen as foster mother because she had ovulated on the same day as the genetic mother (which meant that her uterus was prepared to accept the embryo). The foster mother carried the developing fetus for 174 days and then gave birth to a normal male infant...
...Stillman, assistant steward of the unions local 182, said this weekend the theater was chosen as the target of picketing because it was unionized until Anthony Mauriello, who also runs Cinema 733 in Boston, assumed management of the theater...