Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...succeed Ridgway as commander of U.N. forces in Korea and of U.S. forces in Japan, President Truman chose General Mark W. Clark, who commanded U.S. forces in Italy in World War II, and more recently has been chief of U.S. Army field forces...
...charter is the first constitution to be enacted under U.S. federal auspices since Arizona and New Mexico joined the union 40 years ago. Puerto Ricans boast that it is the most up to date. After years of emotional turmoil over what governmental status they wanted, Puerto Ricans chose neither statehood nor independence. They decided to become a sort of associated free state or commonwealth. Sumner Welles once described the arrangement as "divorce with alimony...
...crews with the same boating as last week will be captained for the first time this season. In this week's elections the varsity chose No. 6 man Theodore G. House of Payton, Illinois and Lowell bridge will captain the second crew, while James E. Barrett Jr. of New York City and Mower leads the freshmen...
...Force saw the whole affair in a somewhat different light. The reluctant flyers all knew that they were subject to combat duty when they chose to retain their reserve commissions-and thus draw a monthly paycheck from the Air Force, plus earning a generous Government retirement pension. Some of them came back into service voluntarily. And most of the sit-downers seemed to get that way just as they were about to be sent to Korea...
...from the minds of the directors of Lever Brothers Co. (Lux, Lifebuoy, Pepsodent) when they first approached an architect to design their new U.S. headquarters. The persuasive arguments that set the design and the revolutionary innovations of the building that resulted are both characteristic of the architects they chose. In the 16 years since it was founded in a one-room office in. Chicago, the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has made itself one of the biggest names in U.S. architecture. Its billion dollars-worth of buildings stretch across the U.S.. and as far afield as Sumatra. What...