Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upon.' " O'Connor embraced "bohemianism. surrealism and D. H. Lawrence." Between a weakness for Communism, a yen for "snatches of Nietzsche," and the desire to be both "a Messiah" and a wolf, he turned into a fantastic "actor" who studied his various faces in the mirror and chose the one he would wear as carefully as a dandy choosing a suit...
...Super Sabre, Brett could have wafted into weightlessness by flying high and level, faster than sound, and pushing the plane's nose up into the Keplerian trajectory, in which centrifugal force exactly cancels the earth's gravitational pull. Despite his plane's vast speed reserve, he chose to work at lower altitudes, enter the parabola from a power dive (see diagram). Over "hot mikes" (both microphones always switched on, so that each of us could hear the other's breathing), he asked simply: "Ready...
...month-long exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum this year, will have a one-man show next fall in London. Seattle Museum President-Director Richard E. Fuller, asked to pick two favorite paintings from his area for Stanford University's "Fresh Paint-1958" (now on show), chose a Horiuchi, and said: "Only a man versed in the beautiful calligraphic writing of the Orient on the one hand, and well grounded in the values and methods of Occidental 20th century painting on the other, would have conceived of such an expression...
...along the line, thus, in effect, putting every sport in an unfair position when competing with the other teams in the league. Or we could cut down drastically on our support to these teams, at least providing for the minimal needs of the other sports. After careful consideration, we chose the latter course...
...decent salary at Kansas. More than 200 colleges bid for the privilege of paying Wilt to study in their classrooms. If Kansas offered only the approved room, board, tuition and $15 a month for laundry, it is hard to see why a cash-conscious young man like Wilt chose a college so far from home...