Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freshman House Athletic Council chose its executive board Monday evening...
Truman's real job was to cut Eisenhower down to size. At San Francisco he did this in the most effective possible way -by reminding his audience that the general used to work for Truman. "He is," said Harry, "the man I chose to be a chief lieutenant in some of the greatest and gravest undertakings of my Administration . . . The reason I have spoken out ... is that the general has betrayed himself ... by his wild attacks on policies and programs for which he had a great responsibility-and received great credit...
...want you to know," Ike said, "that I am proud to come here and ask for the help of the Solid South to win this election for America." He chose as his text two sentences from a Stevenson speech at Los Angeles in which Adlai had said that the "honor and nobility of politics" had become "empty phrases," and that this was the fault not "of the lower order of the genus pol" but of "you, the people." Said Eisenhower: "Are you to blame for allowing nation after nation to fall to the Communists? . . . Are you to blame that...
...year, Yale decided that its coaches, before appearing on radio or TV, would have to show just how the program would benefit Yale. Hickman thus faced the hard decision of tearing up his ten-year contract as football coach or turning down his TV sponsor, Robert Burns cigars. He chose Robert Burns and quit Yale with a typical quip: "When you're being run out of town, get at the head of the line and make it look as though you are leading a parade...
Immediately after this incident, the Faculty had to vote between a morning roll call, or checking of attendance in classes. They chose the latter...