Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With cocky confidence, Fullmer chose again the same tactics that won him the title. Bulling in from outside, he lunged for Robinson's lean, graceful body, whistling home numbing roundhouse rights and ripping uppercuts. Robinson planted his feet and mostly waited; when he did fight back he was as right-hand crazy as a preliminary boy. Held high, Sugar's left was only an ineffective shield. Piling up points, Fullmer showed his contempt for the fading skill of Robinson, once the greatest craftsman of his generation, by landing with awkward, sprawling right-hand leads. Robinson backed...
Fourteen of the 17 employees eligible to vote in jurisdictional elections yesterday chose to be represented by the A.F.L. One bindery worker voted against both the HUERA and the AFL, and two did not participate in the election conducted by the Massachusetts Labor Relations Board. The AFL petitioned ten days ago for the election...
...muscle, of man's power and industrial might. The painting evokes an epoch in the history of American art, a period of revolt against "pretty pictures," of the discovery of a new world for the painter to paint. Applying the new techniques then coming into fashion, Painter Stella chose for his subject that typically American scene, the manmade, industrialized landscape...
Claiming that Greene has "mismanaged" her interests, Marilyn last week chose a new board. Intending to go on slaving for M.M.P., ex-V.P. Greene chirped: "My principal concern is that my investment is properly protected." Harrumphed President Monroe: "My company was not set up merely to parcel out 49.4% of all my earnings to Mr. Greene for seven years...
Just before the opening of the first World War, Percy Wyndham Lewis (who chose to drop his first name) grouped himself with T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and James Joyce as one of "the men of 1914"--four young writers assembled under the vague banner of neo-classicism. Yet Lewis, despite his skills as a painter, satirical writer and critic, has long since fallen into a relative obscurity beside his illustrious contemporaries...