Word: chosen
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Rising fast in the hierarchy, Meany was chosen president of the AFL in 1952. He promptly engineered a merger between his craft unions and the industrial unions of the CIO, producing a national labor movement with the muscle to back up its demands. Yet he remained more practical than ideological, a champion of "the American way of life"-thrift, sobriety, patriotism and perseverance. Meany remained an unrepentant hawk; he had battled Communist labor unions in Western Europe after World War II, and he supported the Viet...
...some $500,000 worth of tritium into 55-gal. drums. To the infiltrators the plant appeared "sloppier and worse than anticipated," Babbitt said. Company officials retorted that the hubbub was "like a Nazi camp in there." They called Babbitt's action "absolutely crazy" and accused him of having chosen "to throw law to the wind...
...field in Iowa the Pope addressed 350,000 people, where he reaffirmed that the priesthood requires a traditional life-long commitment. He also said God has chosen only men "to shepherd his flock...
Bowersock, who chairs the theater committee, believes that "there should be open auditions for anyone. A director may have considerations of style, but race ought not to enter in." Epps agrees that "a person should be chosen for roles on the basis of his ability to portray the character, not just," he adds, "because of the right of access, but also because it is important for us to go beyond racial stereotypes...
...Kellogg, a junior, has chosen to play field hockey. That's right, field hockey...