Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major change, Love chose stroke Carlo Zezza to replace regular first boat stroke Fritz Schwarz, who was moved to the J.V. boat...
County, "which has backed every presidential winner since 1896, gave Ike 15,129, the Keef 12,550." Yet I read in the papers that, in final returns in Vanderburgh County, 22,007 people chose Democratic ballots, and 17,752 chose Republican ballots...
...guaranteed prices and assured markets" in exchange for an obligation to maintain certain standards of production. The law set up in each county Agricultural Executive Committees (A.E.C.) composed of twelve farmers, who were charged with overseeing all the farmers within their jurisdiction, with the right to inspect whenever they chose, to prowl through barns and fields, to impose advice, and if dissatisfied, to evict those who failed to meet their standards. This power was not confined to eviction of tenant farmers. It included power to evict farm owners from their own farms...
...French scholars and artists sought refuge in America from the wave of cynicism sweeping over Europe. After a stay in Britain, young Jacques arrived in the U.S. "in ridiculous short pants and ignorant of baseball." But he was ready to enter college at 15½. The college he chose was Columbia. "To anyone from Europe, Columbia was the American university. Nicholas Murray Butler had made that quite clear to Europe...
...insight and his colleagues by memorizing the Defossez in two days. Other front-runners in the final twelve were Denver-born John Browning, 23, and Poland's Andrzej Czajkowski (pronounced Tchaikovsky), 20. On the advice of Manhattan's Leon Fleischer, who won the last piano Concpurs, Browning chose Brahms's Concerto No. 2 for his big selection, playing it stunningly, and he was the first finalist to bring order out of the Defossez chaos. Czajkowski reminded observers of Chopin (he is attractive to women and prefers composing to playing) and amused them with his jokes...