Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took a calculated risk when it chose to give T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral." For although the play contains some of Eliot's most beautiful poetry, it is immensely difficult to perform. With little action and long choral passages that are spoken by as many as fifteen people, there is an ever-present danger that "Murder in the Cathedral" will seem more a series of dialogues on the problems of sainthood than a unified dramatic whole...
...border to seek harvest work. The Haitian President settled for an indemnity of $550,000 from Trujillo. With murdered Haitians thus officially priced at $37 each, Haiti soured on Vincent, and his government succumbed in 1941. The next President was Elie Lescot, a member of the elite, who chose Magloire first to be chief of the national police, then head of the palace guard, a key position...
...three continents into the turtleneck sweaters of the apaches, to expose their knees and suppress their curves. The New Look of the '20s was the look of Coco Chanel; from it and the sale of dresses, hats, perfumes, handbags, junk jewelry and almost anything else that fashionable women chose to buy, Coco herself became one of France's richest women...
...India sorrowed, and there was only one consolation for the orthodox and the bereaved. "If she did have to die," sobbed one Hindu for his aged mother, "she chose a good day and the holiest spot...
...Louis chose the third grade for a good reason. By then, a teacher can tell which child is coming along rapidly, which slowly; third grade is also the last grade where children learn simply by listening to their teacher ; from then on, they learn from books. In St. Louis, the teachers chose 100 youngsters whose basic deficiencies hinted at trouble as their studies got harder and more formal. Though none was really "backward," i.e., below average I.Q., all had fallen behind because of illness, or too much study too early. Some, because of their failures, had also become problems...