Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discharged as a major), Graham felt tempted to return to Florida and enter politics. He also felt the pull of Washington-and an offer from aging Post Publisher Meyer, whose only son, Dr. Eugene Meyer III, now 40, had staked out an interest in medicine. Graham brooded, finally chose Washington. The publisher pondered whether to break Graham in at the bottom, then decided to skip the red tape. On Jan. 1, 1946 he went to work as associate publisher. Six months later, Graham became publisher of the Washington Post...
...House. Partner Theodore Bernardi, 52, who won a merit award for the pleasantly informal redwood house he designed for himself, chose a hillside site for maximum privacy and view. Main feature: an expansive wood deck, surrounded by oak and eucalyptus trees and overlooking San Francisco Bay. The Wurster-designed house in Stockton, which won the second merit award, is a simple rectangle with large overhanging roof, "a hot-climate house with a hat on it. It was meant to be a house for older people to retire in with dignity. It has big rooms but few of them...
...children of an Irish grocer in Newark, N.J., Iggy went through Newark High School while working as a brewery bookkeeper and machine-shop man. Just when the desire to become a priest hit him he does not know, but "suddenly," says he, "it was there." He chose the Dominican Order and the name Ignatius, and after his novitiate year at St. Rose Priory in Springfield, Ky. he was sent by the order...
...coal operators of making profits "not only from mining coal but by mining miners." Many companies fired employees who shopped at independent stores. One of the worst company storekeepers: John D. Rockefeller Jr., whose Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. refused to give miners the right to shop where they chose until after a strike...
Lack of outdoor practice was glaringly obvious at the start of the second half, as Tony Gianelly and John Chalsty went off with minor muscular injuries within five minutes. With a safe lead, the Crimson chose to play three men and 645 lbs. Short rather than risk aggravating the injuries...