Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual session. In all their formal addresses and still more in their hand-pumping greetings along the crowded, glass-walled corridors 500 delegates from 60 nations talked up "the Geneva spirit" that appeared to be abating tensions. In token of the new cordiality, the Assembly on the first ballot chose its president by unanimous vote. He is Chile's portly, polished Jose Maza, 66, a U.N. parliamentarian of ten years' standing. With Molotov protesting only mildly for the record, the Assembly voted for the sixth year (42-to-12) against considering Red China for membership. But after Molotov...
...join the rebellion. "I am not going to deceive anybody," messaged Rojas. "We are going to make a revolution, and they may kill us all. Anybody who does not want to sail with us may go ashore." Out of 2,300 navy men aboard the warships all but 90 chose to sail with Rojas...
Twenty of the 70 male General Motors National Scholars chose Harvard this fall. Since General motors provides money for two additional scholarships, the College leads the country with 22 G.M. scholars. M.I.T. has the second largest number, 14 nine of which are National Scholars...
...disease was well advanced when Aleijadinho was given the commission that became his crowning life's work, decorating the Church of Bom Jesus do Matosinhos. For the stairway he chose as his subject not the curved elegance of cherubim and seraphim that had made him famous, but stern Old Testament prophets. In them he found a wrath. compassion and inspiration that matched his own. He sculpted their squat figures in bizarre oriental costumes, twisted and tormented in soapstone (which is soft when quarried, grows hard with age). Before the last one was finished, in 1805, Aleijadinho was working with...
...freedom. . . . The worst evil is the refusal to ensure a fair trial to persons seeking employment either in the government or in certain areas of private industry. . . Congress could change this if it were not living in a atmosphere of all-pervasive fear. . . the judiciary could, if it chose, find adequate reason for outlawing the alien procedures which are becoming fixtures in the administrative process...