Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jews sometimes use a name change when a child is very sick in order to foil death. Chaim, meaning life, is often chosen as the new first name, so that when death comes looking for the child, it will not find...
Wardrobe has all been laid out and labeled for each step she takes in Atlantic City. Christine has chosen to play not only the Bartok but also John Philip Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever on the piccolo. "Bartok and Sousa would roll in their graves," Christine grins. But she wants to play the piccolo on TV in hopes of winning a piccolo seat with a symphony...
...reasons for the last-minute shuffle are not hard to guess. Stuck with weak programs chosen by the previous NBC regime, Silverman was headed for a third-place finish in September. Replacement series now in production will not be ready until January, when Silverman will have new-and no doubt better-material to choose from. He has ordered up roughly 40 pilots since taking over the network in June. In the meantime, explains Dancer Fitzgerald Sample's senior vice president Lou Dor kin, "Silverman has to work with what he's got. He has to stunt like crazy...
...waiting world was surprised, then pleased by the new Pope, a lifelong pastor and teacher who seemed to show a rare blend of strength and humility, a fine gift for words, a reassuring balance between kindness and worldly practicality. But how had he come to be chosen? And why? Had some kind of secret combine among the Princes of the Church brought Luciani to the fore? Or a compromise that, despite formal assertions of happiness, really left nobody happy...
...Christ. The Camerlengo, his face wreathed in smiles, asked the ritual question: "Do you accept your canonical election as Supreme Pontiff?" Luciani at first replied, "May God forgive you for what you have done in my regard." Then he gave his assent, "Accepto," and announced the name he had chosen for himself as the new Pope: loannes Paulus. The choice immediately stirred pleased comments among the Cardinals...