Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beginning at 6 p.m. Sunday, the readers each recited 15-minute passages, drawing on authors as diverse as Homer and Studs Terkel. Beatrice Hawley, who conceived of the program last year, said the group chose to hold the readings on Veterans' Day because "this used to be a time for thinking and reflecting about the costs...
Nonetheless, the main group chose the Susitna. On the gray afternoon of April 29, they ignored the warnings of townspeople in Talkeetna that the spring breakup was imminent, and began to cross the mile-wide river. They pushed and pulled their overloaded house trailers across. At times the water above the ice reached their knees. But by late afternoon they had hauled their trailers ashore on the west bank...
...added, "I am happy to stand in her shadow and help to get her re-elected to another term, and still another after that." Suddenly, however, all his reckonings had changed. That evening, less than twelve hours after Indira's death, the elders of the Congress (I) Party chose Rajiv Gandhi as their new leader. As under the British parliamentary system, he thereby automatically became India's seventh Prime Minister. He is the third member of the House of Nehru, which has run India for 33 of its 37 years of independence, to hold that office...
While silencing skeptics by sweeping through two straight election victories, Indira kept her own counsel and chose to live in a house she shared with her two sons, their wives and three grandchildren...
Several Ivy League schools recruited Kostakos from T.R. Proctor High School in Utica, N.Y., where "the team wasn't good, but we had fun." He says he chose Harvard because "I had always wanted to go to Harvard...