Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin and Paris, made several broadcasts over the Nazi radio that created a storm of criticism in Britain. Though later cleared (dithered Wodehouse later: "A terrible mistake. [I intended them] in the spirit of the British soldier who spoke on the radio to get messages back home"), Wodehouse chose not to return to Britain, came...
...Baghdad revolt. His own throne was in jeopardy, his own life in danger. At a critical moment when he still had no pledge of outside help and no firm assurance that his own troops would remain loyal, King Hussein I, a 22-year-old boy turned man, chose to hang on and to fight back. For sheer pluck and determination, no man in the Middle East surpassed him last week...
...father Henry A. Butler into management work at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Later he worked for a while in the family brokerage firm. But when his father died, Joe took on museum directing as well as brokering. It was too much. Forced to decide between them, he chose to be director of the Butler Institute of American...
...into the countryside and hopped out to tell sugar-beet growers how to plant their crops ("in clusters of four"). The crowds in the market squares gave him a desultory welcome. But among some 2,500 Party Congress delegates in East Berlin he got duly booming cheers, and he chose to compare these with the reception "Nixon recently experienced in Latin America." For two hours Khrushchev spoke to his German minions, in the conqueror's native Russian tongue, leaving his remarks to be translated. More than half of his speech was devoted to a heavy attack on Tito, though...
...terms for the scoring of motion pictures in Hollywood, as well as most other commercial music, last week lost control of film scoring to an upstart splinter group headed by a studio trumpet player. In an election sponsored by the National Labor Relations Board. Hollywood's film musicians chose the rebel Musicians Guild of America as their bargaining agent, by a vote...