Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beneficiaries in the crisis were, of course, the Socialists. Party Leader Willy Brandt chose to play a cautious game. Since the national polls showed the Socialists comfortably ahead, Brandt reckoned that it would be wiser to wait until elections and take a chance on gaining power as a majority government rather than to link up now with either the Christian Democrats or the Social Democrats...
...Utrecht in 1713. Spain's cause won moral support two years ago from the United Nations' committee on colonialism, which bade the British negotiate. Bowing, the British finally agreed to hear out the Spanish, then found a way to further stall the proceedings. The method Britain chose was to propose that the matter be referred to the International Court of Justice at The Hague for settlement...
Instead of pass-fail, the proposed system uses the term "audited courses." A student could do as much work as he chose for any number of extra courses, and if by the end of the term he felt that he was well prepared, he could take the final exam. If he passed the final, he would get a "pass" designation on his transcript without being responsible for any of the other course requirements. If he failed the final, or chose not to take it, no record of his connection with the course would be kept...
...pretty expensive. With Jim keeping three North Carolina defenders busy on one side of the field, the Irish gleefully ran up and down the other side and scored two quick touchdowns. The Tar Heels gave up. They took the two extra men off Jim; on that very play, Hanratty chose to throw the shake to Seymour. Oklahoma may finally have discovered a way to stop Jim temporarily. But a sprained ankle is a sometime thing, and Seymour will be back in a week...
Lawrance Thompson, the New Hampshire-born Princeton professor and critic whom Frost chose in 1939 to be his official biographer, did a lot of watching and checking. Out of nearly three decades of conversation and affectionate companionship has come an eloquent biography-this is the first of two volumes-that will surprise Frost's idolators. Thompson shows that there was very little in Frost's style that was spontaneous; he had to whittle laboriously at his poetry to achieve his roughhewn colloquial effects. Even more interesting is the author's picture of Frost as a selfish, baffling...