Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast, public drunkenness among adults is the big and growing problem, especially in remote communities. In Nome (pop. 2,585), a Methodist minister led a drive to close the town's seven bars and three liquor stores, pointing to the fact that two other similar-size Alaskan towns had chosen to go dry. Nome's voters rejected the idea 3 to 1, but the town council passed an ordinance closing liquor stores early, which in Nome means midnight. Bars, however, can still serve customers until 5 a.m. on Friday and Saturday...
...decision was made. Early the following morning, as the Roman troops started to climb the rocky path towards the fortress, the men inside held their wives and children close, then killed them. When only the adult males were left, they lay down near their families, and one of them, chosen in advance, killed his mates one by one. Finally, with the Romans approaching, this last man completed his task by driving a dagger into his chest. Masada had fallen after a three-year stand, but the symbolic act of defiance remains even now as heroic. Faced with the choice...
David Chan, the photographer, who has done college profiles of women in the Big Ten and Pacific Ten for Playboy, said yesterday he is here looking for a representative cross-section of photogenic women. "The Ivy League was chosen because there's been a large nation-wide interest for photos of its women. They have a mystique and a special aura about them," Chan said...
...woman who is chosen to pose nude for Chan receives...
Roueché is no less provocative when he turns to more animate objects. Elwood Schmidt maintains a solo medical practice in the lonely little New Mexican town of Jal. With a few carefully chosen quotes, Roueché brings the doctor to life and makes the reader care about him. "Here's a man with nothing wrong with him except he's drunk by noon every day of his life," laments Schmidt to Roueché after his dinner has been interrupted by a would-be patient. "Goddamned people in this town who think I'm like that light...