Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Czech officials snapped like kindling under the purge ax. After arresting former Foreign Minister Clementis as a "spy," Czechoslovakia's Red bosses went after his appointees. The Czech ambassador to India, Bohuslav Kratochvil, refused to go home, instead chose freedom in Britain (TIME, March 12). Less smart were three of his colleagues. When called to Prague for "consultation," they obeyed, and were promptly shunted to minor jobs. The three...
Mandrake & Aloes. Dr. Carter sought his raw materials in nature. Podophyllum resin, or podophyllin, is the resin of the dried root of the mandrake or May apple; Carter combined this with the dried juice of aloes. He chose as his trademark an overstuffed black crow, which gave a nice zoological balance to Bull Durham's bull on the nation's barns. By 1880 the growing business was incorporated. Millions of pills were shipped all over the U.S. and abroad...
Dances at Davis or Scott liven up Saturday evenings, and such variety performances as the Rally Day show, take care of other nights. This year's show, "Quelques Chose", featured Charles Addams, Yale (though they liked the Harvardman's gift of the "Fruit of the month"), and a song whimsically entitled "No Sex After...
...delays and red tape. U.S. farmers, by & large, boycotted the agreement too. They had come to consider the wetbacks as a cheap, natural resource, as rightfully theirs as rain or good soil. Forced to choose between lawbreaking or paying legally imported Mexican "Nationalists" a fair wage, many farmers chose, without hesitation, to break the law. After all, wetbacks would work-and are working-for as little as 20? an hour, a wage comparable to that skilled labor receives in Mexico.They do not argue, do not agitate, do not complain; if they do, they can always be turned in as border...
...composer with a predilection for American subjects, Moore chose a hard story of Norwegian pioneers in Dakota Territory. Arnold (Down in the Valley) Sundgaard carved a three-act libretto from Norwegian-born Novelist O. E. Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth...