Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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North Dakota. Ailing, cantankerous Senator William L. Langer, 71, was resoundingly renominated in the Republican primary. Last March the Republican convention dumped Wild Bill because he had been a fairly consistent Democratic voter in the Senate, chose instead devoted Party Hack Lieutenant Governor Clyde Duffy, 67, to run for Langer's Senate spot. Langer (an adopted son of the Sioux Indians), once the favorite of the now-divided Non-partisan League, could not have cared less, filed against Duffy in the primary, showed his craggy face on only three campaign trips, wound up with a whopping victory. One source...
...Even De Gaulle, perhaps the most willing of all Western leaders to talk with Russia, declared that he now saw little chance of a summit meeting this year.) All these were consequences that calculating Nikita Khrushchev obviously foresaw when he passed the death sentence on Nagy and Maleter, and chose to proclaim it. He planned it that...
...failure and that it was time to revert to a hard line with the satellites. He may have been pushed to this conclusion, but on the record of his career of reversing himself, he was capable of reaching it on his own. In true Communist fashion he chose to serve notice of his decision not in a proclamation but in action-the execution of Nagy, Maleter & Co. Nor did anyone in the Communist world miss the point. Poland's Gomulka, described by his associates as "broken and bitter," saw no one for hours after the news reached Warsaw...
...made plain, the destiny of France still lies squarely in the hands of proud Charles de Gaulle. Searching last week for a suitable description for the general's Cabinet meetings-which he uses chiefly to announce decisions he has already reached-Information Chief Andre Malraux brashly chose to compare them to "those in Napoleon's time." French journalists, accustomed to subsisting off the daily indiscretions of the Cabinet ministers of the Fourth Republic, saw the whole thing in a different light. "Covering the government," moaned one, "is like trying to cover the court of the Emperor of Japan...
...Arriba Nixon!" Only 15 years ago a Democratic Senate committee investigated Puerto Rico and pronounced its problems "unsolvable." Only twelve years ago Puerto Rico's retiring New Dealing Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell chose The Stricken Land as the title for his book about the island. Today Puerto Rico: CJ Boasts a per capita income of $443 (v. $742 for West Germany, $2,009 for the U.S.), which is surpassed in Latin America only by oil-rich Venezuela. ¶ Costs the U.S. Treasury next to nothing. ¶ Governs itself in orderly democracy within an imaginative new "Commonwealth" relationship to Washington...