Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncle. The uncle, Dr. William R. Laird, adopted him. He attended Greenbrier Military School, King College in Bristol, Tenn., and West Virginia University, where he received a law degree in 1944 and made friends with a fellow student, Bill Marland. Marland, now 37 and governor of West Virginia. chose Laird to fill in after Senator Harley M. Kilgore died last month...
...certainty of Communist rule ... I was in Athens at the time." He accused Archbishop Makarios of negotiating in bad faith, of raising his demands, of refusing to disown the terrorists. Added Eden: "We had no choice but to fulfill our responsibilities or abdicate our authority, and we chose the former. It was not an agreeable decision...
...British, their power and prestige gravely shaken by the latest in a series of humbling retreats, decided to make a show of standing firm in Cyprus. The method they chose came right out of Kipling's yellowing text: they banished the bearded Archbishop Makarios, spiritual and temporal leader of the Cypriots, to an equatorial Indian Ocean island. They hoped thereby to hold Cyprus, but had they merely made sure of losing...
...city of black and white," Saarinen says. To emphasize the play of light and shadow across the broad, 330-ft. façade, he worked out a structural grill that takes its rhythm from the window spacing of surrounding Georgian structures. For his major material Saarinen chose white Portland stone, traditional both in London's official buildings and as ornament on private brick dwellings. To sharpen the black and white contrast, he used black oxidized bronze for a decorative frieze of state seals between the first and second floors and for a great seal of the U.S. above...
...Class of 1956 chose Cliff F. Thompson of Lowell House and Fairway, Kan.; William M. Meigs of Adams House and North Braddock, Pa.; and Arthur G. Siler of Winthrop House and Orinda, Calif., as first, second, and third marshals in a close election yesterday. Albert B. Levin of Kirkland House and East Orange, N.J., was elected Class Committee member-at-large...