Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good behavior" (be a nice, polite Briton) or go, a felon in felon's garb, to a convict prison. From the dock defiant, and vowing he would never accept the ignominious convict's garment wherewith Britain has always insisted on humiliating Irish political prisoners, "cantankerous Kelly chose jail...
...would be mandatory under the Administration plan, including 3,000,000 self-employed farmers, about the same number of farm and domestic workers, and 500,000 professional workers, such as doctors, dentists and lawyers. Clergymen and state and local government employees could join if they chose. The Administration is also considering: 1) an increase in benefits, perhaps by $5 or $10 a month, to those now receiving them, and 2) a flat $30 a month to 5,000,000 retired oldsters who have never contributed to social security, and thus get no benefits now. To meet these big new expenses...
...chose three songs by Norway's Composer Edvard Grieg, followed by Isolde's Liebestod from Tristan and the last scene from Götterdämmerung. At the end, the international audience rose and shouted for a full five minutes while Kirsten Flagstad curtsied and smiled with tears in her eyes...
Even the Literary Guild, customarily little interested in unknown novelists, chose three first novels in 1953, and two were good. Stephania, a story of difficult and subtle relationships among patients in a Swedish hospital, was the surprising work of Ilona Karmel, a Polish graduate of Nazi concentration camps who wrote an adopted English that was both expert and moving. The other was Helen Fowler's The Intruder, an Australian novel about a mind-sick veteran and the family of his dead buddy. Another notable first was Mr. Nicholas, a whiplash dissection of a tyrannical London father by young...
...meantime, the CRIMSON's presses have necessarily halted, but publishing should resume January 4. A Walu Walu delegation chose the Crimeds for the job following a special interview carried on in sign-language last week in New York City...