Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chose to go on the B & M's Steam Safari to Portland, Maine, and the people with whom we went had too foresaken rest, church, comics, and TV. Instead we all got very sooty, and very tired, and very aesthetically fulfilled. For that one day of rest, you see, we were a brotherhood of a curious breed. It was a railroad enthusiasts' picnic...
...Aldrich's ruling that McCarthy had clearly overstepped the legal authority of the Government Operations Committee he headed in 1953-54, have already been discussed at length in this newspaper. What has not been discussed, since it only appears through re-reading Aldrich's decision, is that the Judge chose to believe McCarthy on small points and completely disagreed with him on large ones...
City. Church World Service met the sailors, gave them American clothing, medical care and spending money, arranged for them to get factory jobs, meet other Russian refugees, attend English-language studies at Columbia University, as they chose. Three of the Russians lived at the university's International House, where they talked about hard work and buying U.S. cars, dated American girls and impressed new-found friends by their delight in "planning things." "They had attacks of homesickness," said Dr. William Cullen Bryant,* their instructor at Columbia, "but then many students...
...consequences of this action. He ridiculed Stalin's vaunted "military" genius and accused him of fleeing the Kremlin during the defense of Moscow. Evidently it was not possible for the party leaders to speak so directly to the Russian people without risking a public convulsion. Thus they chose the indirect approach, but the ugly story in all its sordid detail was there to be read by every Russian who could remember back...
...jellaghas killed, 2,000 captured. French losses: 672 soldiers and policemen killed, approximately the same number missing and presumed dead. Some 1,300 civilians have also died in terrorist attacks or reprisal killings. Reporters on the spot insist that there have been many more deaths than official sources chose to report-chiefly uncounted Moslems killed in reprisal for terrorist attacks...