Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Party in Turkey's first honest elections two weeks ago. But this week when the new National Assembly met for the first time, its strong Democratic majority overruled 67-year-old Celal Bayar and elected him President. Bayar, an advocate of less government interference with business, chose as Premier Adnan Menderes, a wealthy landowner of Aydin...
Both of Bobby's parents volunteered as donors. After tests for blood type and other factors, the doctors chose his father, Sidney Lawrence, a healthy man of 40. All the signs were favorable...
...German membership in the North Atlantic Treaty. As politicians, almost all of them still believed that damning the boche was the cheapest way of getting votes in France. A week before, they had instructed Schuman to stall on the whole issue. But now Schuman said: "J'ai quelque chose ici" . .[I have something here...
Gradually, with considerable prodding from visiting U.S. labor organizers ("When are you guys gonna get together?") the CGIL secessionists moved toward a new, free federation. Last February in Naples, Christian Democrats, Socialists and Republican trade unionists agreed to merge, chose as secretary general a Christian Democrat veteran: paunchy, plodding Giulio Pastore, 47, who has an unimpeachable record as an antiFascist. Last week in Rome, the new CISL was formally launched...
...easy recipe for cooking up a song. Several years ago he began filling notebooks with catch phrases, slang and cliches ("Cliches make the best songs; I put down every one I can find"). Last April, with three notebooks full, he went to Veteran Songwriter Al (Mairzy Doats) Hoffman, who chose Baked a Cake as the most promising title, helped Merrill whip up the words & music in a couple of hours. The lyrics asked very little of the U.S. mind. Sample...