Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question the concern for Nixon's safety voiced by President Eisenhower. But the flamboyant flight of American troops to the scene will surely be recorded as one of the most monstrous blunders of our ill-fated Latin American diplomacy. The President, whose capacity for indecision has become historic, chose exactly the wrong moment and the wrong method to prove that he is a man of action. The President acted like the Communist caricature of the Yankee imperialist. As for Nixon, he has greatly diminished sympathy for his behavior by a vulgar attempt to convert this dismal tour into...
Going through a list of about 15 modern painters, Heinz President Jack Heinz, 49, and Bunshaft soon chose Stuart Davis, 63 (TIME, March 15, 1954). Explains Heinz's Heinz: "After all, it doesn't take long to think of Stuart Davis. He's the dean." Painter Davis created his own design, evolved an ingenious rig that allowed him to swing the huge canvas over a wooden roller like a rug hung up on a clothesline. He worked six months from his first sketch to the completed work, produced the largest single canvas he has ever done...
Other companies had bid against Indiana Standard, offering only the fifty-fifty split. But this was more fiction than fact, because they also offered huge bonuses, bigger than Indiana Standard's. Iran chose the smaller bonus and bigger split, gambling that Standard will find a huge new field. If it fails to, then Iran will lose the gamble...
Marxist Buddhist. U Nu has also declared that "Marxism and Buddhism are incompatible," but to Burma's surprise the side he chose to join was that of Marxist Thakin Kyaw Dun and his strongly left-wing socialist followers. U Kyaw Nyein emerged as the rival leader, backed by U Ba Swe, Minister of Defense, and Thakin Tha Kin, ex-Home Minister who had been fired by U Nu. Both sides agreed to an equal division of the party's real estate and money, and prepared for a showdown in the August session of Parliament, with the losing side...
...acceptance (there are no intermediate grades). After the Ds have been separated from the Xs, another jury, the Hanging Committee, passes the final verdict, this year chose...