Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...splinters' choices of numbers are determined largely by sentiment. A big faction of Colorados picked 14 because their party always sweeps Montevideo's Election District 14. Batlle Berres' even bigger group chose 15 because (except for unlucky 13) it was the closest thing to 14. Two splinters that regard themselves as friendly opponents of the 145 and the 155 took the numbers 1414 and 1515. Other Colorados chose 65 in honor of the revolution of 1865, and a Blanco faction picked 97 as a memorial gesture to the revolution...
...Judges chose the Jaffe Club as the second finalist team in the law School's Ames Competition Wednesday night, Jaffe won an unanimous victory over the Seavey Club and the right to oppose the Baker-Smith Club next April in the final mock trial...
...Chinese Communist motive lay in Asian politics. India's Nehru and others have recently been pressing the Chinese Communists to desist from subversive activities in other countries. The Reds will not-in a sense, cannot-drop their underground groups. To ease the pressure from Nehru they chose to publicize the trial of 13 Americans whom they called "spies...
...take full advantage of his middle-class social position. He wanted to be a lawyer, but at Kiev University in those turbulent years at the turn of the century, a student had to make a political choice, or forego ambition. Figuring that the Czars were about washed up, Andrei chose the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party. In the abortive 1905 revolution, Vishinsky was arrested along with a bunch of railroad strikers and did time in a Czarist prison...
...other states are painfully slow in adopting even the most basic land reforms. Aside from official state government legislation, which comes slowly, the chief hope for land reform comes from a little old man with the simple formula of the Golden Rule. Vinoba Bhave, the man Gandhi chose to be his first example of civil disobedience against the British, is walking through villages asking the landed to volunteer one-fifth of their acreage for redistribution. "Bheodan," or landgift, is an idea that may spur state governments to needed reforms. For to date Vinoba has collected over three million acres...