Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team's novice member, Cox, said the team"collaborated" well together and, through groupwork, made efficient use of the five hours. Thethree students-who were chosen two weeks ago intryouts run by veteran members and teamalumni-practiced three days last week for a totalof 15 hours...
...story that revolves around transportation none the less. Lindberg intersperses lively descriptions of her father's 6'2" frame folding itself into a Volkswagon Beetle for a quick road-side nap with tales of sleek Pullman trains and Ford Ranch Wagons. Lindbergh writes that her father "may have chosen it [the Ford] more in an attempt to camouflage and conceal his family from the world, a vehicle that mixed family travel with protection, part covered wagon and part battleship." In many ways Lindbergh's new memoir is an attempt to understand the peculiar relationship between covered wagon and battleship, family...
...most part, Harvard's minority student groups have chosen to be largely self-directed organizations, often leaving the Minority Students Alliance (MSA)--an umbrella group founded to bridge the gaps between groups--with few members and little role on campus...
...Henry Hyde whimsically put it, "this venture, this excursion"), Flynt's effort is one more signal that things are spiraling out of control. As a sign on a Southern back road says, CHOOSE YOUR RUT CAREFULLY. YOU'RE GOING TO BE IN IT A LONG TIME. We've chosen the politics of scandal, and we may be here forever. "I don't see how you put it back in the box," says Republican Representative Christopher Shays. No one approves of a lying adulterer, and something grave must be done with the awful knowledge Starr forced on us. But impeachment? Flynt...
Still, surgeons who perform radical, headline-grabbing operations know the value of good publicity. So it was something of a shock to an international team poised to perform the world's first successful hand transplant to discover that they had chosen a man with a record as long, so to speak...