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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baked Alaska. Somehow the President managed to make a respectable stab at the Embassy's consomme, Dover sole, saddle of veal, potatoes duchesse, cauliflower and charlotte pralinee. It was at this semipublic occasion-there were 16 British and American officials present-that Secretary of State Dean Acheson chose to lecture the Prime Minister on Britain's lackadaisical attitude toward the European Defense Community and toward settlement of her disputes with Iran and Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Opportunity Ahead | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...Pierian Sodality of 1808, Harvard's oldest music organization and foster parent of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra, yesterday chose its slate of officers for the new year. The following students were elected to executive positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sodality Elects | 1/9/1953 | See Source »

...Republicans chose to turn it into a political question in the lowest sense: what can we sell our votes for: They sold them for Southern votes for high tariffs, tax swindles (officially known as loopholes), and all these little plots so dear to the GOP's heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Great Crusade | 1/9/1953 | See Source »

More & Less. But the Premier chose to deprive the deputies of their sport. At first he tried to talk his way past the approaching votes of confidence, as he had so often before. The argument was, as usual, the budget. "What are my opponents asking?" said he acidly. "At one and the same time they want more revenue and less taxation, more spending and less deficit, more reforms and less change." Downfall of his government, he warned, would lead to panic, "and from panic to speculation, and from speculation to collapse of the Treasury." His hearers were unmoved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Would-Be's Parade | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...They chose him as President and worthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "A HARVARD JUNIOR" | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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