Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hook's was decidedly the stronger win. He scored two on the takedown, then chose the defensive position where his superior height aided a quick reverse. His strength did not fade...
...voted solidly for private power against public in an open contest, the real significance was deeper. If "cheap" public power had really been cheaper than private, the election would have gone the other way. The real significance lay in the fact that Stevens County ignored sloganeering and chose the power system that fits Stevens County today...
...risen to be top commissar of heavy industry. One day in 1936, during what Russians now call the Ezhovshchina (the purge which carried off some 7,000,000 Russians to Siberian prison camps and mass graves), Ordzhonikidze learned that his precious engineers were being arrested. Victor (1 Chose Freedom) Kravchenko, a minor executive of the Commissariat, later told of Ordzhoni-kidze's telephone call to Stalin...
...turbulence, the Sultan sought to set up his country's first representative government. He did not entirely trust the country's largest party, the Istiqlal (Independence) Party, whose leaders are united in hostility but undecided which prophet to follow, Marx or Mohammed. As first Premier, the Sultan chose a man identified with no party, but admired by most nationalists. He is Si M'Barek ben Mustapha el Bekkai, 48, onetime Pasha of Sefrou, who served as Mohammed V's representative in Paris during the Sultan's exile. Si Bekkai is a retired lieutenant colonel...
Barlu is owned by Oilman Phillis N. ("Pete") Wiggins Jr. and his two sons. Cooper and the Bronsons chose Barlu from a long line-up of clamoring customers. Under the deal, Barlu will make a down payment of $10 million, plus payments spread over ten years based on the value of Happy Jack production, up to a maximum total of $30 million...