Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mayor Richard Daley's front-line forces in Chicago must have been chosen for immovable heft, men built like trucks. Now they silently palm-smacked their clubs, their eyes as narrow as the slits in an armored car. Most of the convention delegates and dignitaries quartered in the fortress Hilton were at the moment three miles away at the convention hall, preparing to bestow upon poor Hubert Humphrey the nomination he thought would redeem the years of humiliation and corrupting self-abasement he had endured as Johnson's Vice President...
...picking a running mate at the very last minute: Adlai Stevenson in 1956 throwing the decision open to the convention, with the multiballot fight between John Kennedy, Estes Kefauver and Al Gore Sr. And the night in 1980 when we waited for Reagan to announce that he had chosen former President Ford, only to learn that the deal had collapsed at the last minute...
That helps explain the appearance of not one but two books that dip into the seemingly bottomless well of Kennedy effluvia. Despite enough volumes about the clan to line a presidential library, no biographer until now had chosen to focus so explicitly on the relationship between the fun-loving, womanizing John Kennedy and the more aloof Jackie--perhaps no one dared do so until Jackie was safely in her grave. But though both Christopher Andersen's Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage (Morrow; $24) and Edward Klein's All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie...
...Monaco has been an active and valued member of the medical staff for many years and he continues his clinical and academic affiliations with the Deaconess," Erin C. Martin, spokesperson for Deaconess. "We deeply regret that he has chosen to bring a legal action; however, we have evaluated the allegations and have found them totally without merit. We are confident that the outcome will support this conclusion...
...course regret that Dr. Monaco has chosen to take legal action but on evaluation of the allegations, we have found them to be without merit and we believe that a court would agree," said Jacobs...