Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Boris Pasternak, Poet Joseph Brodsky was such an abstainer. A softspoken, red-haired Jewish youth who lived in Leningrad, he chose not to join a writers' union, refused to serve on editorial boards, earned his living as a stoker, a metalworker, or occasionally as a laborer on geological expeditions. Meanwhile, he wrote poetry for his own enjoyment and that of his friends, among them some of Russia's best-known literary lights...
...chose to run as an independent, following the precedent set by Harvard Professor H. Stuart Hughes who ran for the Senate in 1962. Day said he did not want to run in the Democratic primary so that he will have additional months to campaign...
...meeting had been called by Ronny Haan. Until last March he was an Eagle-Times carrier boy himself, and a good one. So were his kid brothers, Nolan, 16, and Kenneth, 13. Four years ago, Ronny won an all-expense trip to Colorado, but he chose the alternative prize of $150 in cash. He wanted to add the money to the personal savings account that he hoped would, one day, pay for college. The papers refused to pay. That $150 figure was a misprint, they said, and they offered Ronny Haan $18.75 instead. Ronny went on the trip...
...other outside aid and did not deny the charges of sabotage, Mandela and Sisulu adamantly insisted that Umkonto had no tie-in with the A.N.C. They argued that the Spear had been honed only when black South Africans concluded that peaceful means of achieving equality had failed. "The whites chose to turn South Africa into an armed camp," said Sisulu. "I do not see how I could have done otherwise than I did. It is inevitable that in any civil war fought in this country, victory will go to the oppressed...
...campaigned energetically for both Tito and Arnulfo. In return, he fully expected to be chosen from the elected alternates to sit in for Tito whenever he is away. Since that is often, Jimènez was counting on earning a near full-scale $12,000 annually. But Tito chose someone else as his alternate, and Jimenez was left holding...