Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time of overthrow of former priemier Ngo Dinh Diem, Vu asserted, "the temptation was very great... to start a 'united-front' with he communists." But the Vietnamese people consciously chose not to," Vu said. "They would not easily forget the blood-stained experience of condition government with the communists in 1945-46," he added...
Senators never felt grander. The Congress decided what industries to protect with tariffs, what railroads to build, what public works to undertake. They chose, or thought they chose, Presidents. And they were hawks: the Senate had more than its share in pushing the U.S. into the Spanish-American War. Some time before, a young scholar named Woodrow Wilson had written mournfully: "The President may tire the Senate by dogged persistence, but he can never deal with it upon a ground of real equality. His power does not extend beyond the most general suggestion. The Senate always has the last word...
...Percy Foreman, 64, is probably the biggest, brashest, brightest criminal lawyer in the U.S. The 250-lb. son of a onetime Texas sheriff, Foreman chose brains over brawn as a teen-ager when he landed a contract to load cotton at 25? a bale, then hired laborers to do the job at 8? a bale. At 16, Foreman quit the hamlet of Bold Springs to seek his fortune in Houston; he shined shoes, delivered papers, and hustled through the University of Texas law school. Of his clients, he likes to say mysteriously: "They may not always be right, but they...
...most cases, the Judge would have simply pronounced final sentence. But because Leary had no prior criminal record and the judge had little information on him, he chose to invoke the 90-day commitment option...
Both advocates and opponents of the new system agree that the old method of assigning freshmen hurt certain Houses severely. Freshmen indicated their first, second, and third choices on their House applications, and each Master chose a percentage of those who had ranked his House first. But freshmen regarded a low number of choices for a House as de facto evidence that there was something wrong with it. A vicious circle was created; a House would receive few applications one year for no other reason except that it had received few the year before. Masters of undersubscribed Houses...