Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many as 60 anti-shah protesters have dies in clashes with government troops since the start on December 2 of the holy month of Moharram, the period chosen by the shah's opposition to step up their campaign against the shah...
Frank J. Weissbecker, director of Food Services, released figures indicating that if students had chosen a 14-meal plan this year, they would have saved $133 in board charges. The cost differences reflect only savings in food consumption
...CRIMSON has chosen to act where it could do the most good--the decision to avoid participating in any way in the production of Playboy assures the Crimson that it will not have any influence whatsoever on the magazine's editorial content on a national level. (The idea that The Crimson could ever exert a positive influence on the content of Playboy is, of course, absurd.) On a local level, our running subscription ads from Playboy may influence a small number of people at Harvard to buy the magazine. Although it is a difficult decision, we are confident that whatever...
...momentous. As part of a continuing campaign to deglorify Mao Tsetung, the poster dared for the first time to criticize the late Great Helmsman by name for serious political mistakes. Indirectly, in a move that could have ominous repercussions, the poster also criticized Hua Kuo-feng, Mao's chosen successor as Party Chairman and Premier...
...Edgar's whimsically chosen twofold device for waking up these affluent and effete somnambulists to the empty nature of their existence and the imminent prospect of mass extinction. Edgar's gun comes closest to smoking when he has the guest of honor, a Kissinger-like Secretary of State, trussed up in a chair and holds the weap on to the dignitary's head, while the pair reach a tongue-blistering stalemate on the accommodations of power vs. the demands of conscience. Two ideas have entered Doctorow's play on a double ladder of descent. Ennui, anomie...