Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geneva in 1955, and revived in the House of Commons last week by Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. Its basic provisions: Germany should be reunited by free elections and allowed to determine its own foreign policy (the NATO treaty does not commit a reunified Germany to membership). If united Germany chose to join NATO, the West would not move troops into what is now East Germany (which would bring NATO some 200 miles closer to Moscow), but would leave that area as a buffer zone...
After Carranza, Mexico began electing its Presidents, in 1924 chose Plutarco Elías Calles. Calles quickly turned into a dictator, suppressed the Roman Catholic Church ruthlessly. He established a dynasty of puppets that ran until 1934, when Lázaro Cárdenas was elected...
...They asked us where we would like to go if we could go anywhere in the world," explains Leighton. "We chose Sweden because Mrs. Leighton's family comes from there, and it was the first place that occurred...
Charleston. S.C. the Evening Post went farther, dropped the whole education sequence. Other Southern editors chose to let Pogo have his say, carried his full symposium on "consegregated," "de-conseg-regated," and "non-un-de-consegregated" schools. Cracked Editor Harry Ashmore. whose Arkansas Gazette did not pencil Pogo: "I suppose some editors are worried about their daughters' marrying a possum...
...School of Paris: Japanese prints. Homer lived in Paris in 1867, must have been aware of the fashion for things Japanese, which had already led Manet to simplify, sharpen and contract his pictured scenes. Homer inwardly resolved to do the same. Gardner believes, but like a Yankee, "he chose to keep his mouth shut...