Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be an occasion for any participating nation to needle or humiliate any other nation. Medals would be presented, as in the athletic events, but in the embarrathon both winners and losers would be asked to mount the platforms so that the world might jeer or smirk as it chose. Or are we getting desperate...
...reassert their century-old economic and political influence in Viet Nam. But by the mid-1940s they found themselves battling the nationalist ambitions of the Communist Viet Minh and their French-educated leader Ho Chi Minh. By 1954, with Viet Minh control spreading across the countryside, the French chose the valley of Dien Bien Phu to make a decisive stand aimed at checking the Communists. Instead, the one set-piece battle of the seven-year Indochina war led to the slaughter of 1,500 Frenchmen and, at home, to the loss of political will to continue the campaign. To General...
...play, to throw you in the water or to make a small device that falls on your head so something spills all over you." She has childlike fears: lightning and Chinese firecrackers. Until lately, she prided herself on being able to walk down the street unrecognized, if she chose, simply by changing the proud dancer's way she carries herself, and she has few of the airs of a star. She prefers taxis to limousines. She generally flies coach. At hotels, she books a room, not a suite...
Forbes said he chose to retire voluntarily at age 66 because "one gets the feeling in life that there's a right time to do things--it's a got feeling." Forbes added that he wants to make room for younger faculty. "It's important to build for the future," he said...
...added that of the two sections of Music 128b. Forbes characteristically chose to teach the one for non-concentrators...