Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Correspondent Pollard asked Teacher Levine why she chose TIME as the class textbook. Her answer: "It is the most readable and complete newsmagazine in America...
...replace them, Larrazabal chose two moderate civilians: Treasury Minister Arturo Sosa and Junta Secretary Edgard Sanabria. And, to help gloss over the reasons for the junta split, he announced at week's end the enactment of the long-awaited law laying down ground rules for elections next November...
...first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition: Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1, Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3. The conception in both was sweeping, the technique so sure that he rippled off the Rachmaninoff without cuts and with the finger-cracking cadenza that the pianist-composer himself chose not to play. Despite a few nervous smashes in the opening Tchaikovsky, he played with such bravura and nuance that the audience paid him the rare tribute of thunderous applause between movements. After both concertos, as he rushed to embrace Conductor Kondrashin, he won shouting, standing ovations-and a deep-throated...
...almost everybody involved in the maneuvering seemed to be playing a dangerous forcing role with a skillful caution that left room for retreat. Premier Pflimlin. gaining time with each day in office, was unflinching but not unyielding; he might have denounced the Algiers military junta for sedition, but he chose instead to remind it of its duty. The junta itself preserved a careful ambiguity about the source of its authority. Unpredictable Zealot Jacques Soustelle. greeted by fervent admirers in Algiers, nonetheless cried ou; "Long live the Republic!" and denied that he was preparing a coup d'etat...
...Caracas mobs started to swarm the next day. At the Maiquetia Airport, the newsmen got their share of the mob's spittle from 200 shoving high school students waiting for Nixon. Knowing that more trouble was coming, Wilson and six other newsmen scorned the closed cars assigned them, chose instead to ride with the photographers in an open-topped truck that directly preceded Nixon...