Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale, however, the three upper classes chose Eisenhower for president, favoring him with 40 percent of their votes. The Elis ranked Senators Taft and Douglas second and third, rating Truman fourth with only four percent of cast Republican ballots. the votes...
Moreover, since the networks cannot televise or broadcast the full proceedings of any committee, committee members have had to chose what portions of their inquiries the public could see and hear. This has usually meant full play for dramatic accusations and oblivion for the more lackluster denials...
...last words, the half-staffed flags of London climbed upward once again to fly at full-staff for six hours, in honor of the new Queen. The sun itself, as though a providential stage manager had planned it, chose that moment to break through the dismal overcast. As the heraldic procession moved on, in gilded coaches, to proclaim the great tidings at other key points in the city, Londoners felt a warmth in their hearts like the sudden sunlight. The dead King was not forgotten, but today they had a new Queen...
King George chose to live as normally as possible. On the last day of his life he was out shooting hares. Although the King used special shells to reduce recoil, his weakened frame still had to take the repeated kick of a shotgun. There is no reason to believe that this hastened his death. During the night, as might have happened any other night in recent years, the blood slowed down in one of the King's hardened (and narrowed) coronary arteries. As it slowed, it thickened. Finally, it formed a large clot, and the King's life...
...judges, Walter H. Piston '24, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, Allen D. Sapp, Jr., instructor in music, and Russell T. Stanger, conductor of the orchestra, also chose pianist June C. Robert '52 and violinist Barbara Sorenson '52 as alternates...