Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours to screen 136. This was the long-expected Communist move to sabotage the explanations that were costing them so much face in Asia. The go-slow tactics imposed a new strain on the P.W.s, but they did not seem to be swayed. Of the first 136, only two chose to go back to Communism...
...each inherited a bristling minority problem. Twelve million apprehensive Hindus stayed in Pakistan; 43 million Moslems stayed in India. The Indian Parliament guaranteed its minorities equality, and Prime Minister Nehru conspicuously appointed Moslems and Christians to his Cabinet. But Pakistan, in framing its own constitution last week, chose the dark path which might lead to theocracy and fear. The Constituent Assembly ruled that the nation should become "the Islamic Republic of Pakistan" (presumably within the British Commonwealth, like India), in which...
...last, they managed to smuggle two messages to the Italian consul in Budapest. Last summer they were suddenly taken to the camp hospital for fattening and were told they could have their chance to work in Hungary or to return to Italy. They chose Italy's slums...
Soprano Schwarzkopf chose her favorite form, German lieder, and, from the time she first opened her mouth, never uttered an unpleasant sound. She ranged with practiced ease from a fragile, little-girl voice in such songs as Schubert's Die Vogel to big, dramatic tones in Hugo Wolf's Kennst Du das Land. She could soar high into the flute altitudes with the same rich quality that she used in her cello-like middle register. Before her program was half over, the audience was convinced; by the end, it was shouting its approval...
Whatever it is in a woman that sends poets, artists and commonplace millionaires into a swirl, Misia Sert had. She was a Polish beauty who was born in Russia, chose to live in France, and found the great love of her life with a Spaniard. Then, to make her Spaniard happy, she gave him up to a younger woman. Misia's memoirs are written in low key. sometimes with the flatness of a diary. But despite her flaws as a writer, her story gives a revealing account of life on the borderland of Bohemia in a bygone Europe...