Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group chose to gather at the Boston City Hospital "as a reminder of the domestic needs which have been overshadowed by the war," a handout sheet stated...
...account of a dispute over where Kennedy should be buried. Most of the family favored his native Massachusetts, but after Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara entered an eloquent plea for Arlington, Jackie chose that site...
...dubbed "instant Stonehenge," after Britain's famous Druid ruins, received a panning from the public and the press and pained reactions from the Roosevelt family. Earlier this year, the committee decided to try again, this time without a competition. After considering the work of 15 architects, it unanimously chose Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained Marcel Breuer, 64, whose recently opened inverted-ziggurat Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan drew hostile criticism until it proved to be a perfect host...
...partisan, uttered by such Republicans as Barry Goldwater and outgoing Idaho Governor Robert Smylie. None of the President's friends and close aides take it seriously. "His whole life has been politics," scoffs Texas Governor John Connally. "I must say I would be a bit surprised if he chose to end his career at any time in the near future." Still, that such talk could get started about a man so fond of power indicates how Lyndon Johnson's popularity has faded; the theory is that he might prefer dignified retirement to a fight he might lose...
...some kind of antidote to the artificiality of the stage. I remember when she was singing at the Winter Garden in Bournemouth, I went down with John to visit her. It was a blowy, gusty sort of day, and when I asked them what they wanted to do, they chose the beach. It was deserted; we improvised a shelter, then we splashed into the wild sea. Or evenings, boating on the Wey River, those two would literally fight for the privilege of taking the oars. To this day, Julie is naturally a country girl. There is nothing she likes better...