Word: chosen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...killing machine. "That was your life," he says of his two years of endless fighting. "That's what you did unless you wanted to stop and die." His lieutenant liked him--they discussed Shakespeare--and when the order came to disarm the children, he was one of the first chosen to be rehabilitated...
...festivals are based on traditional Shinto purification rituals. In Inazawa, where this year's event will be held on March 2, one self-confident fellow is chosen to be the official streaker. He's shaved and then marched through the Kounomiya Shrine, where a throng of around 9,000 men wearing only loincloths attempt to lay their hands on him as thousands of spectators watch. The naked man is supposed to collect the bad luck and impurities of all who touch him. The crowd can get overly enthusiastic (sake is involved), so the man is protected by guards...
...last launch. But even in the next nine months the key themes of the next Office and Windows will be chosen, so I do get to shape one more round. They might invite me to that launch...
...also consider op-art submissions, including annotated charts, a series of drawings or photographs, or other graphics. Your submission must, however, still make an original argument or convincing point. If your op-ed is chosen for publication, an editor will contact you to start the editing process. Though you will always have final say over the content of your op-ed, we reserve the right to write headlines and choose illustrations to accompany your op-ed (normally, our writers do not write their own headlines either). Lastly, no article is ever guaranteed publication—even the articles that...
...human enough to hope they would grieve my loss, but praise God's mercy in allowing me to live as long as I had and to know that God's plan for me - and them - includes what we wouldn't have chosen, but that we know to be perfect and best...