Word: chosenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he was chosen to move up to the chairmanship of British Petroleum Co. last month, Deputy Chairman Eric Drake noted that he had already had "a pretty good bash at about every end of the business." Last week Drake was in the midst of a brand-new bash-one that could turn out to be very good indeed. In a lightning move that belied B.P.'s sure-but-slow reputation, Drake set plans to buy B.P.'s way into the American market at a cost of $300 million-one of the biggest single invasions...
Simpson, Keyes, and Hanratty are also on the UPI All-America team, which was chosen Monday. Bill Enyurt of Oregon State fills out the starting backfield at fullback...
...members should be elected by popular election in every House, not chosen by the House Committees...
...armed with some prior knowledge of Malraux and France, not to mention a tolerance for offhand allusions to everything from Vishnu to Vichy water. Its most accessible elements are brief recollections of personal danger, each spiced with the author's sense of fate and history. Such incidents were chosen because they brought Malraux, the man of action, face to face with death-and the limitations of human courage-just as his lifetime has brought him face to face with the limitations of the revolutionary aims that he pursued so hotly in youth...
...Loeb, the audience has been conditioned to know that a good set doesn't necessarily mean a good evening. We have to wait and be sure that the actors don't screw everything up. For this production, Hamlin has chosen a cast of newcomers to the mainstage. I don't know where he found them all, but I doubt he could have done much better...