Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Emboldened by Saud's advice, portly, opportunistic Shukri el Kuwatly went back to Damascus, called in Chief of Staff Tewfiq Nizam el Din, and drew up orders transferring some 120 pro-Serraj army officers to out-of-the-way posts. For Serraj himself, Kuwatly and Nizam el Din chose an ironically suitable post: Syrian representative to the joint Arab military command in Cairo...
Lael Tucker pleads a moral cause: a kind of private euthanasia, her husband's "right to die as he wished to, when he chose." She knows that this claim is based on pride: several times during the last painful months, the Wertenbakers gaily toasted what they called their hubris, a word which they thought defined their own gallant pagan defiance of fate. Each reader will have to judge the moral issue for himself; the real significance lies in the fact that, in this book, the issue is only seen in terms of responsibility to oneself and to other human...
Three dozen or more minor blood vessels had to be tied off to stanch the bleeding. One surgeon would hold a clamp on a blood vessel while another passed the suture silk around it, deftly tying knots. With ribs and breastbone now lying bare, Bailey chose which bones to cut, called "rib shears." A scrub nurse handed him a device like fowl shears with offset handles. With firm pressure of powerful hands. Bailey himself snipped the breastbone...
Winthrop's members almost without exception enjoy their House. Whether because ninety per cent of its members chose Winthrop as their first preference, or because the hot-bed fervor so prominent in some other houses is never consciously promoted in Winthrop, dissatisfaction is virtually unknown...
...Radcliffe squad yesterday chose Lucy Busselle captain for next season...