Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ordered by his doctors to take a complete rest, Sir Winston Churchill chose his own pinch-hitter, Acting Prime Minister...
...United Mine Workers. Warren Harding appointed James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, who had been president of an Iron, Steel & Tin Workers local. Herbert Hoover named William N. Doak, who had been vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Franklin Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins, and Harry Truman chose Lewis Schwelenbach and Maurice Tobin...
...break with the past had to be felt, simply and simultaneously, by all Turks. Ataturk looked about for the significant gesture. In India it had been salt-making in defiance of the British monopoly; in China it was cutting off the queue. Ataturk chose to attack the fez, traditional symbol of Ottoman citizenship. "The fez is a sign of ignorance," said he. He laid down a deadline: after that date, no brimless headgear. Some Turks, unable to find hats with brims, wore their wives' hats: better to look silly than to risk losing your head...
Donlan, who was a three sport all-scholastic star at Boston College High, received offers last spring from more than ten different colleges. Although expected to attend either Notre Dame, Holy Cross, or Boston College, he chose Harvard. He has already been granted a scholarship by Holy Cross...
...brief exile, Iranians seemed to have given their own patriotism a bracing shot in the arm. "There is an old Iranian proverb: 'There's no room for two kings in a kingdom,' " one Iranian explained. "It was either the Shah or Tudeh. And the people chose the Shah...