Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must choose," was his challenge to the Assembly. His fellow Radical Socialist Edgar Faure talks the language of moderation and gradualism, speaks of "carom shots," and "economic billiards." "If you can't get over an obstacle, go around it," he likes to say. Last week the French Assembly chose to go around with Faure...
Last spring, after getting a $15,000 grant from Chicago's Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults, Director Spengler and Associate Professor (of English) Stern asked the faculty to recommend adults for the experiment. Of the 130 applicants, Spengler and Stern chose 32. Each student was supposed to cover the regular undergraduate work (128 credits), but before he started he was allowed to take examinations on any subject he thought he could pass without taking the regular course. The adults could go to class or not as they chose; they got extra reading assignments, had special...
When he got reserpine last summer, Dr. Tasher made his test as rigorous as possible. He chose patients in whom all the approved treatments-and others now discarded-had failed to bring lasting improvement. They had got as much psychotherapy as the short staff could provide-all to no avail...
...Little Father. Spears, a hussar who speaks French like a native, served as a liaison officer with the French in World War I. When World War II began, Churchill chose Spears as his personal representative to the French government. He became a sort of overloaded Hermes whose duty it was to convey to France the untranslatable fire and fighting passion of his master in Downing Street...
Since his wife's illness, Brooks has confined his work to Cambridge. He idolizes Ulen ("He's the real coach, not the guy who gets the ready-made swimmers,") and though he could be a varsity coach almost anywhere he chose to go, he wants to stay with...