Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pressure was steeply stepped up by the arrival in Ireland of Esther Vanhomrigh, a young woman Swift had known in London. After eight years of harrowing tension-it seems clear that the affair was never consummated-Swift apparently chose Hester instead of Esther. A few weeks later, at the age of 33, Esther died...
...Interior. Once a Boise attorney, Carver has solid Washington experience, ran the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service among other agencies. And to head up the 170,000-man, $6 billion-a-year Veterans Administration (third largest Government employer behind Defense and the Post Office), Johnson chose William J. Driver, 46, a VA career man who has served as deputy administrator for nearly four years. Even on this less than Olympian level of Government, Johnson was being unusually reticent about discussing who was in and who was out-the word was that the President just does...
...excitement led Dr. Uhr to inject various amounts of virus into guinea pigs. He chose a small virus, of a type that does not usually cause disease in animals, but one which has the advantage of setting off antibody reactions that can be readily measured. And one of his first discoveries was that it is not true that it takes several days for a virus to get off the production of antibody. If a latent period exists, Dr. Uhr found, it is shorter than 24 hours. Nor did it turn out to be true that one type of virus triggers...
Steady Harassment. If and when Verwoerd's patience ever runs out, his first target for vengeful action is very likely to be Gandar of the Mail. Born in the sea resort of Durban, on South Africa's east coast, Gandar chose a journalism career after leaving the University of Natal. But he made no particular mark until the businessmen who own the Rand Daily Mail hired him in 1957 to succeed the paper's departing editor...
...first decision was whether to hold a competition for the building. The family decided against it since in a competition "you have to surrender to the judges," as William Walton put it. What they chose, the Kennedys would have to accept, whether they liked it at all or not, by the rules of the game...