Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to be visibly annoyed with the ball boys. Carried away by their private sentiments, the youngsters clapped for Schroeder (with the rest of the crowd) when he once broke Larsen's service. After that, the ball boys never seemed able to do the right thing, whether they chose to retrieve a netted ball for Larsen or let it lie. Meanwhile, Schroeder found his big serve, ran out the last three sets...
...catch Mao's ear, Harry Truman chose to talk mostly about Formosa-instead of Korea. The Chinese Communists had protested belligerently to the United Nations about the "aggressive" U.S. Seventh Fleet lying in the Formosan straits. Said the President at his press conference last week: of course, the Seventh Fleet would be pulled out as soon as the Korean war was over. In English or in Mandarin this seemed to mean: stay out of Korea, fellows, and when the ruckus there is all over, Formosa will be left out in the open, where you can grab...
...Franklin County, Ohio, 600 adolescents, asked what kind of programs they would like to hear more often, chose music over cowboy shows, adventure and children's programs, by more than...
...rather significant commentary," concluded the professor, "that four times as many boys chose as their hero Gene Autry as chose Jesus Christ; that as many chose Jack Benny as chose priests, ministers, and missionaries combined . . . and that, among the girls, twice as many wish to be like Shirley Temple or Jane Powell as wish to be like all religious figures combined...
...year-old Captain Flynn, a World War I Navy veteran, showed up at his 68th Precinct Station, retired to his quarters and shot himself through the head. In a note which he left, he denied that his death had anything to do with gambling or money matters; he chose suicide, he wrote, because of "a lot of headaches in this precinct" and the long trip to work from his home...