Word: chosen
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...Christmas costumers of turning Christ's Mass into kitsch. Or you can see them, from a loftier perspective, as the only true celebrants of the original Christmas spirit, which we have tended to lose sight of in recent centuries. Check out the holiday's history: Dec. 25 wasn't chosen because it was the date on Jesus' birth certificate but because that was the time of the ancient Saturnalia, when all of Rome poured into the streets for days of public revelry. Even Christianity couldn't take the urge for orgies out of Christmas. In Europe's Middle Ages...
...said it has taken five years of auditions for the show before he was chosen to be a Jeopardy! contestant. These unsuccessful attempts "turned out to be a blessing in disguise because I got so much practice," he said...
...What we want is someone who looks like they're having fun," Sutten said. About 400 contestants are chosen from about 25,000 people who audition each year, she said...
...advocate the same position on the same issue is the prerogative of The Crimson staff, I became disturbed when the bias seemed to spill over into the actual coverage of the debate, a phenomenon that culminated in the naively uncritical interview of the former grape worker who was chosen by the United Farm Workers (UFW) to be questioned, and whose answers were given through a UFW "interpreter", who happened to be the union's vice president...
Originally affiliated with Eliot House, Ocon switched her house affiliation to Dudley earlier this semester. Payanzo has chosen to remain affiliated with Currier House...