Word: chosen
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...Lawns were not always the chosen landscape of the educational countryside; Oxford and Cambridge adapted and refined their expanses of herbiage to conform to fashion dictates. Oxbridge was the seat of elite male education in Britannia. In her 1994 work, "The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession," Virginia Scott Jenkins relates how the lawn concept emerged in the 18th century, when the gardens at Versailles were designed to include a small lawn, called the "tapis vert" and the popularity of Lancelot Brown's landscape stylings in Britain ("a new, elite style characterized by a mixture of meadows, water...
...conquer the mountain step by step. The pleasure and the motivation was in the action, not in the outcome--or expected outcome. Perhaps that is what John Mallory meant by requesting that the body remain undisturbed--his father died in the process of taking the challenge he had chosen. Whether he had completed it or failed in the attempt is not as important as his having tried...
...wedding is in late August. The cathedral has been chosen, the tickets have been bought and the wedding gown has been purchased...
...told them I really hoped one of us would be chosen as a contestant because we had lost all four of our games in California. We needed something good to come out of the trip," said Micomonaco of his winning interview...
Micomonaco's teammates said they predicted he would be chosen to appear on the show...