Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company that controlled 23 banks in eleven Western states, had also spread out into insurance and a few other fields. Congress ended all that with a law (aimed particularly at Transamerica) that forced the company either to get out of banking or cease all its other activities. The company chose to leave banking, decided to build up a whole range of subsidiaries that would offer practically every financial service but banking...
...also faced a difficult round of diplomatic negotiations. Only days before Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson and West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard were scheduled to arrive this week, Johnson reluctantly decided against meeting them at the ranch and chose to fly back to Washington for the busy week of conferences...
Branch Rickey might have become a practicing attorney-but he quit after trying one case. He might have been elected Governor of Missouri-but he chose to turn down the Republican nomination in 1940. From the day he played his first pickup game in the 1890s until he died last week at 83, baseball was his career, his hobby and his life. He never really rued his decision ("The game has given me joy"), but there were times when he wondered aloud, balancing a baseball in his palm: "This symbol? Is it worth a man's whole life...
...both economies are in serious trouble. Passionately describing the hardships the war has brought to Hanoi, Cameron suggests that American bombers are to blame for food rationing. In fact, rice rationing was begun there in 1954. Presuming to speak for all the Vietnamese, he says, almost offhandedly, that they "chose" Communism...
...Jesus chose "the day of his death" by allowing himself to be arrested the night before the start of Passover; he pronounced his own death sentence when answering Caiaphas' question, "Are you the Messiah?" He bluntly said, "Yes, I am." Such careful timing assured Jesus that his body would be taken down before the start of the Sabbath, in accordance with Jewish law. Thus, he was on the cross only three hours, though ordinarily it took days for a man to die from agony and exhaustion in that form of execution...