Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approached and Wallace outgrew an instinctive isolationism, Roosevelt-who was anxious in any case to dump curmudgeonly old John Nance Garner as his two-term Vice President-chose his Agriculture Secretary for the vice-presidential nomination. To party strategists, Henry Wallace was the only man who could out-husk Wendell Willkie in the corn belt-and they were right. As Vice President, he headed the wartime Board of Economic Warfare, traveled to Russia, China (where he taught peasants how to use hoes Western-style) and other Allied countries, participated from the beginning in the development of the atom bomb...
Muzzling the Press. On local newspapers, the regime imposed strict censorship and gave itself the power to take over any newspaper it chose "in the interest of public safety." Censors prevented the Rhodesia Herald, which opposed U.D.I., from putting out an independence extra; and when the paper finally appeared the next day, its pages were studded with gaping white blank spaces-one of them 20 in. long-where the censors' scissors had been at work...
...week to the day after Quaker Norman Morrison burned himself to death outside the Pentagon, Roman Catholic Roger LaPorte, 22, a student at Manhattan's Hunter College, doused his clothes with gasoline and set himself aflame on a street corner outside United Nations headquarters. Like Morrison, he chose immolation as a way to protest U.S. warfare in South Viet...
Gatto said he chose Harvard over the football powers because he wants an Ivy League education. That does not mean he would rule out pro football if he received an offer, but at 5'6" and 180 pounds he doesn't expect the pros to be interested...
...Egyptian British captain was vain and foppish, and he was crazy about women. What rocked them back on their heels, he figured, was his dazzling smile-well, not his smile exactly, but his teeth. Superbly white and straight, they suggested strength and virility. So after careful consideration, British Intelligence chose the young officer for a secret mission to inform the Bulgarian underground that Turkey was entering the war on the Allied side and British troops were preparing to launch a massive attack through the Balkans. Then, through a double agent, news was leaked to the Germans that the young officer...