Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic 1888 study of American politics, Lord Bryce titled one chapter "Why Great Men Are Not Chosen Presidents...
...case dates back to 1973 when the Navy announced that it had chosen an 8,500-acre tract at Bangor near the northwestern corner of the state of Washington as the home base for its Trident submarines. To support these su-persubs*-which are designed to replace the Polaris and Poseidon as nuclear deterrents-the Navy planned a $600 million complex with an estimated population of as many as 55,000 people. But the tract borders Hood Canal, a deep marine estuary leading off Puget Sound, and the more that local environmentalists learned about the Navy's plan...
...theatrical wing of the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 has chosen Warren Beatty as Man of the Year and Valerie Harper, star of the CBS television show Rhoda, as Woman of the Year...
Harper, a three-time Emmy-Award winner for her portrayal of the wisecracking Rhoda Morgenstern, is the first television actress to be chosen as Woman of the Year. She will arrive in Cambridge February 18 to participate in a parade through Harvard Square and receive an engraved bronze Hasty Pudding...
Bruce H. Minevitz '75, co-producer of the show, said yesterday that the Man and Woman of the Year are usually chosen for their "outstanding contribution to the acting profession, especially during the past year...