Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alternate were authorized to attend the national convention. One delegate (who left before the close of the convention) and the alternate managed to attend. Then, in accepting NSA for another year the Council refused to take full advantage of the information these people should possess, and instead chose to accept as the basis for its action a report which gave no mention to the policy decisions made at the congress, support for which Harvard's membership implies...
...this discretion, said the court, the FPC gave "mature consideration" to both plans and concluded-on the basis of the evidence-that each was "equally comprehensive." Weighing in favor of the private project was the fact that Congress has consistently refused to authorize a federal dam. Hence, the FPC "chose between a $400 million plan, which nobody was offering to undertake, and another comprehensive development for which private capital in the sum of $175 million is immediately available, so construction can begin at once." Concluded the court: the FPC's right to make such a choice is legally unassailable...
...scenically dull stretches, make roadways at least 80 ft. apart, build them at different levels for greater safety and so that oncoming traffic would not spoil the view. Last week Highway Man Tallamy got his chance to put these ideas in effect all over the U.S. President Eisenhower chose him as the Government's first Federal Highway Administrator in charge of its $33 billion program for a coast-to-coast network of superroads...
...play is a sermon, however, it preaches by demonstrating. Just as Shaw himself debates with the audience, so the play's principal character, Andrew Undershaft, engages in a series of verbal duels with the rest of the cast. Laughton and his designer, Donald Oenslager, chose to underline this element of Shaw's way of constructing the play by making the main feature of the set two identical benches, placed on opposite sides of the stage and remaining fixed even when the scene shifts to a different location. Laughton, playing the part of Undershaft, almost invariably sits on or stands near...
...arguing that the legends help to reveal the man. He has collected them all into a gigantic bouillabaisse of a book which gives the impression of being organized by an excited jackdaw. It is called a novel, presumably to allow the author to use any colorful incident he chose without the hampering need for accuracy. The fact that Dumas survives Author Endore's treatment is decisive proof that even a bad biography cannot destroy a really great...