Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mighty Tough. At Houston's Bellaire High School, Greg Mermel also had a choice. A bright, cherubic-faced six-footer who had skipped fifth grade, Greg could have taken the normal courses, knocked off all A's. Instead he chose to test his mettle in Houston's tough "major works" classes for advanced students and wound up with a B-plus average, which led Harvard to reject him, Columbia to put him on a waiting list...
Last week, after hearing 64 witnesses and listening to brain-numbing testimony that covered 18,020 pages of transcript, the jury chose to believe Steele. It awarded him a fat $7,500,000 as compensation for the 62,000 shares of founders' stock that he claimed had been withheld from...
...couldn't be Nureyev on the cover of TIME. Where is the fierceness of this Tartar, the aggressiveness and the ever-present savage mystery? The colors the artist chose would have been better utilized for illustrating Dame Fonteyn...
...held none of Tocsin's naive hopes about establishing a meaningful dialogue with Washington officialdom. Its leaders chose Easter weekend for the march, although they must have realized that Congress would be in recess and Johnson probably in Texas. Students made no appointments with officials. They did not seem to think that they could "come and reason together" with Johnson; nor did they believe that a dramatic reevaluation of U.S. policy would result...
...Bond, he and his companions appear to have a sort of moral license to enjoy the forbidden pleasures of promiscuity, drink, and bloody adventures. Their hip talk and brotherhood in crime have an alluring in-group quality. Miss Clarke allowed this deceptive appeal to enter her argument when she chose adolescent protagonists...