Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mishmash of charges made before the Reece committee (TIME, June 21 et seq.). Both the Carnegie and the Ford Foundations have submitted sworn statements. Last week, on behalf of the Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board, President Dean Rusk sent in his. Among the "bizarre innuendoes" he chose to refute...
...murdered 15 million of their opponents, thousands of Free Chinese guerrillas are still fighting in the interior of China . . . Red China's army numbers 2,500,000, but its loyalty is not reliable, as was proved when 14,369 members of the Communist Chinese army captured in Korea chose to go to Formosa, and only 220 chose to return to Red China. The return of the Chinese main land would automatically produce a victorious end to the wars in Korea and Indo-China, and would swing the balance of power so strongly against the Soviet Union that it would...
...Adenauer chose an interview over the Northwest German Radio network for his answer, knowing that the microphones would carry his words across the Rhine: "EDC is not only the best but the sole good solution . . . Alternatives to EDC differ from true EDC as ersatz coffee differs from real coffee ... In the unlikely case that France rejects EDC, nothing would remain but to establish a German national army alongside a French national army and other national armies ... It would be an absurdity of history and of politics if France, by allowing EDC to fail, should be directly responsible for the creation...
...England Yankee may yet go down in history as supreme of all the breed of men who chose to battle whales...
...went down to the sea in whalers chose a job that was both dangerous and boring. Trips frequently lasted as long as five years, and one Nantucket captain spent only six of his 41 whaling years at home. Sometimes a captain came back with enough oil from one cruise to retire for life. But there is also the story of the skipper who spent two years at sea and returned to tell his owners: "We didn't get a single goddam barrel of oil, but we had a goddam fine sail." For the average crewman the money rewards were...