Word: choses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...state capitals, 531 Constitution-ordained members of the Electoral College gathered to perform a patently superfluous rite, their sworn duty to re-elect (457-74) Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon to the nation's highest offices. In Alabama, however, one elector chose to ignore the vote that sent him to college, wrote in for President, instead of Adlai Stevenson, the name of Alabama's states-rightist Judge Walter B. Jones. Thus history books will forever record the 1956 election results as: Eisenhower, 457; Stevenson, 73; Jones...
...week at the Jesuit philosophical institute known as the Aloysianum (for St. Aloysius Gonzaga) in Gallarate, near Milan, man put his electronic brains to work for the glory of God. The experiment began ten years ago, when a young Jesuit named Roberto Busa at Rome's Gregorian University chose an extraordinary project for his doctor's thesis in theology: sorting out the different shades of meaning of every word used by St. Thomas Aquinas. But when he found that Aquinas had written 13 million words, Busa sadly settled for an analysis of only one word-the various meanings...
Going Wild. John then put his highly touted intelligence to work, scouted around for a likely target. "I deliberately selected a small bank that wouldn't be crowded, and where there wouldn't be an electric-alarm system," he said. He chose the small, upstate Richmond (111.) State Bank, borrowed his father's -45-cal. and a neighbor's car, drove to Richmond. In the middle of the day he walked calmly into the bank ("I wanted to be fair, so I didn't wear a mask"), vaulted the counter, flourished...
...they stumbled, lost to Washington and Cleveland. When they met the Philadelphia Eagles on the rain-soaked turf of Connie Mack Stadium last week, the Giants had their choice of winning the Eastern Division title for the first time since 1946 or slithering sloppily toward second place. The Giants chose...
...servants, the monks entered through the kitchen, and a two-year-old boy ran toward one of them crying, "Sera Lama, Sera Lama!" At this the monks' hearts leaped, for their leader was indeed the Lama of the Sera Monastery. Other tests were made: the boy unerringly chose from a number of rosaries the one that had been used by the old Dalai Lama, and he selected the drum with which the ruler had summoned his servants...