Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Order Chcmgeth." At the presidential press conference the 186 correspondents were also thinking campaign thoughts. Had Ike changed his mind about barnstorming? "Well, no, I have not ... Now that doesn't mean that if I so chose, that I couldn't go to an area other than in Washington to make a significant political speech." Recalling 1952, when he logged 52,000 air miles and 36,000 more by train, Ike declared: "That is what I call barnstorming, and that I am not going...
...John Harding made his response: leaflets scattered by jeep and plane offering amnesty to all E.O.K.A. men who would lay down their arms and surrender. Harding's terms: any terrorist who surrendered within three weeks was free to renounce British citizenship and emigrate to Greece; those who chose to remain in Cyprus must stand trial for any physical violence they had committed. All other crimes would be for given, but all E.O.K.A. members who stayed in Cyprus would be held prisoner "until released either by the ending of the state of emergency or by virtue of an order...
...commitment to show the half-hour film, actually showed the last six minutes of it after carrying four brief interviews with politicos, fill-ins by four of its commentators, and a one-minute commercial. The network, said Mickelson mildly, was simply "exercising our news judgment" in what it chose to show...
...result showed the wisdom of the Summer School administration in disregarding its unwritten rule of not engaging the same choral conductor in successive summers. Schmidt's accomplishment is all the more remarkable in view of the facts that he was beset by unusual handicaps this summer and that he chose works of greater difficulty than in the past...
Ideologies are anathema to Kirk, but he is also disturbed by the U.S. habits of "getting and spending." Here he becomes somewhat vague, as if he chose to ignore the fact that the good and full life can at the same time be a prosperous life. But he is most irked by the whining sort of U.S. intellectual who sets himself apart, "a species of dilettante who prides himself on being different, for no particular reason and with no particular duties." The men of this breed must find Kirk a very peculiar intellectual indeed. Can he mean it when...