Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab popular opinion to such a pitch that not even Nasser with all his prestige might dare a settlement with Israel. In Jordan, their primary staging area, they constitute virtually a state-within-a-state and could probably topple King Hussein and take over his splintered kingdom if they chose. And their power and influence are increasing all the time...
Some poetry purists criticized Dickey for using a journalistic device to clarify the poem's meaning. As precedent, Dickey cites the notations in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Says Dickey: "I had to make a choice, and I chose to give the reader a better sense of continuity. I don't see why there always has to be a barrier between art and journalism. Journalism can be a great vehicle for a true poetic vision...
After the 1920 Republican Convention, which chose him over two abler candidates, Major General Leonard Wood and Illinois Governor Frank O. Lowden, Harding became the compromise candidate to end all compromises. He was, at best, the man nobody really hated-the legendary two-o'clock-in-the-morning choice of political bosses horse-trading in a smoke-filled room...
...residents of the model neighborhood--a 268-acre area east of Central Square--voted against the program, which was made up of 29 separate projects aimed at improving housing, employment conditions, and social services in the area. 2639 voted in favor of the whole program, while about 400 chose to cast a separate vote on each project...
...largely for that reason, Hayes says, that he chose to turn pro right away rather than mark time by playing on the U.S. Olympic basketball team. Besides, as a family man who now lives in fashionable La Jolla, Calif., with his wife Erna (the Middle E) and his year-old son Elvin Jr. (the Little E), the Big E had to think about Green Power-that $400,000 four-year contract he signed with the Rockets...