Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PHILIPPINES. The only large and economically important colony ever held by the U.S. got its independence, according to prewar promise, on July 4, 1946. (Puerto Rico, offered independence, chose to remain tied to the U.S. as a semi-autonomous "commonwealth...
...mishap in South Carolina fed fires already raging. By unhappy coincidence, Nikita Khrushchev chose this moment to write Bertrand Russell a 9,000-word letter attacking U.S. Secretary Dulles' stand on disarmament. This letter, published in the left-wing New Statesman, warned that "one absurd incident" involving a bomb-carrying plane could spread "horrible death," touch off a world...
...your article on the President's vacation with ex-Treasury Secretary Humphrey: What a difference in point of view! To me, it seems that our President chose one of our country's financial wizards with whom to study leisurely and analyze-thus giving tremendous meaning to his message...
...Good Old Ag. Tech. It was a front name for a Comintern school, training foreign Communists to take over in their old homelands when the Russians won the war. The first odd thing about Tom Red's schooldays was that the hero had to change his name (he chose Linden). It was one step in the dehumanization process to which the curriculum was bent. His old pals from Moscow greeted him as a stranger. It was a rule; no one was to know anything about anybody...
...candidates for President and Vice President, were overwhelmed by the Peronista machine. Tenaciously. Frondizi set himself to work for another chance. His voice blasted at Perón on dark streets to little knots of approving Radicals. When the dictator eased up just before his fall in 1955. he chose Frondizi to speak for the opposition. Said Frondizi: the Radicals stand for the right "to think, to profess religion, to meet, to publish ideas...