Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land him, the Vikings had to outbid half a dozen other teams. Unbelievably, VanderKelen was a free agent, ignored in December's pro draft by everybody except the American Football League's no-account New York Titans (who chose him on the 21st round). When the pros finally did wake up after the Rose Bowl game, the N.F.L. Champion Green Bay Packers seemed to have the inside track. "I'm from Green Bay," VanderKelen said, "and every boy in town dreams of playing one day for the Packers." But pros play for pay, not for home-town...
...reported last October that Jordan Olivar had coached his last team at Yale, and stories from New Haven Monday confirmed our information. Faced with the option of leaving his lucrative California insurance business or resigning his coaching job, Olivar chose to devote himself to money making...
...Angeles, and it seems hardly fair to complain that Nin's El pano murciano is not an especially interesting song when she is warbling her way through it. The encores included the inevitable Clavelitos, but some members of the audience were clearly disappointed that de los Angeles chose to omit Adios Granada, a flamenco which she sings to her own guitar accompaniment. They need not have been; it is not every exam period after all, that brings with it a concert by the soprano with the world's loveliest voice...
...proletarian youth, Bevan raged that Gaitskell was a "desiccated calculating machine." No phrasemaker, Gaitskell did not engage Nye in verbal combat, instead coolly and shrewdly lined up the trade union rank and file behind him. When Attlee finally resigned after the Tory victory in the 1955 election, the party chose the quiet man instead of the angry Bevan to be its leader...
...night suddenly surrounded the army GHQ with armored cars. Colonel Nahlawi got the point. In another country, he and his men might have been jailed, or even executed for treason. But Koudsi, who keeps a prepared resignation in his desk just in case the soldiers should some day win, chose not to push his luck. Escorted aboard an airliner and given $1,000 apiece to cover their expenses, the rebels were sent back to diplomatic posts-in civvies...