Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Right now, however, we're at a loss to discover why Senator McCarthy chose to make an issue of the nomination of Charles ('Chip') Bohlen as President Eisenhower's -and the country's-ambassador to Soviet Russia. The fact that Senator McCarthy thinks other people are more qualified is not relevant. The fact is that President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles tapped Bohlen for the job because they thought he was the best-equipped candidate they could find. Joe McCarthy has performed herculean service in the campaign to root subversives from the fabric...
...Hoosier hog farmer who went to Washington in 1933 to help man the old Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Wickard was one of the promoters of the early New Deal's pig-killing experiment, worked closely with Henry Wallace, rose to Secretary of Agriculture (1940-45). When Harry Truman chose Clinton P. Anderson as Secretary, Wickard was taken care of at REA. The law creating REA specifies that its administrator shall be appointed for ten years. With three years of his ten-year term still before him, Wickard at first resisted the request for his resignation. But last week...
...match my flops with anybody," and adds: "There are only two ways to get ahead in Hollywood. You either have to get one great picture a year-these propel you forward-or your impact has to be made with a lot of pictures." Ros, of necessity, chose the second way, and was realist enough to know that not all the pictures would be good...
...somehow he managed to come out of it all. He got his Ph.D. at 18, and did graduate work in philosophy under Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, Josiah Royce and George Santayana. For a time he vacillated between mathematics and philosophy, finally chose math, with brilliant results. Looking back on his youth, Norbert Wiener tries hard to strike a judicious balance. He still admires the standards of scholarship and devotion to intellectual matters he learned from his father. He cannot help agreeing with papa that it was worth learning geometry, Greek, Latin and German "at an age when most boys...
Devotion to this purpose made George Orwell the best and the most important writer of the last twenty years. he addressed himself to reality, and he took the path of most resistance. He chose lies to expose and facts to emphasize chiefly because they were--and are--the lies most commonly believed and the facts most commonly ignored...