Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anababtists selected the town of Muenster in West Phalla as the New Jerusalem. They marched into the market place prepared to be as sheep for the slaughter, but armed with swords just as a reminder of what they might do if they chose. Whereupon a revelation from the Holy Ghost instructed them to choose that which they might. Catholics and Lutherane were expelled... Roland Bainton, 16th Century Reformation...
...from being dissatisfied with the FAA's performance so far, the President felt that Congress would not approve appropriations for both the poverty program and the SST at the same time-particularly since the aviation industry is balking at paying even 10% of the SST cost. He therefore chose to delay the SST. The U.S. is already far behind the Anglo-French consortium, which expects to put its Vlach 2 Concorde into commercial service in 1971. U.S. aviation industrialists now hope that the President has heard heir mayday cries and will see fit to put the U.S. SST program...
...many of the strong-minded qualities of the young women in the pages of Chekhov and Turgenev. The honeymooners spent their time translating The Theory and Practice of Trade Unionism, by the British Socialist sages Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Of necessity, every revolutionary needed a pen name, and Vladimir chose his: Lenin, presumably from the Lena River, the longest and one of the coldest in Siberia...
...Dinner. Where was everybody? A lot of them were in Bel Air at the home of Producer Harold Mirisch, who chose this particular Monday night to throw a party. Mirisch and his spangled crowd-150 people on the level of Billy Wilder, Gene Kelly, Dean Martin, Louis Jourdan-watched the show on ten TV sets while eating a catered dinner...
Offered a choice of Derby mounts (Shoemaker also had an option on The Scoundrel), more than one top jockey has made the mistake of picking a loser. In 1942, Eddie Arcaro chose Devil Diver over Shut Out; Shut Out won at Churchill Downs and Devil Diver finished way up the track. Like every other jockey, Shoemaker has heard that story at least a dozen times, and to test his own judgment, he flew into Lexington last week to ride Hill Rise for the first time in the Forerunner Purse, a Derby tune-up. It was not much of a race...