Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister's residence. Legally he has only a three weeks' lease on 10 Downing Street, but he is counting heavily on a five-year renewal at the general election, May 26. On their side, the Laborites were making plans to blast him right out again. They chose the biggest weapon they could find-the H-bomb, which had come near to blasting Labor's own ranks less than two months ago when Party Leader Clement Attlee and rebellious Nye Bevan fought about it in the House of Commons...
...counter the blandishments in Bandung of Red China's Chou Enlai, President Eisenhower chose last week to remind free Asians of U.S. friendship. In a message to Congress, he detailed his $3.5 billion program for next fiscal year's foreign aid. The amount is a notch above last year's presidential request and $749 million more than Congress appropriated. Three-fifths of the new total is earmarked for Asia...
...consummation long and devoutly wished, Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma ("Dickie" to his friends) appeared at the Admiralty in London and took office as Britain's First Sea Lord. The last First Sea Lord to steer H.M.'s Navy from the green-walled room Mountbatten chose as his office was his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, who was forced to" resign at the outbreak of World War I, after 45 years of devoted naval service, because of public outcry over his German birth. Though he had openly aspired to the post for a good part...
...definition Aldrich chose requires a full description of the charge against the defendant and "safeguards against further prosecution for the same act." He ruled that the testimony at the January 1954 hearings cannot, and need not be consulted to determine whether the definition has been...
With London and Dreiser, particularly, Lynn has developed a previously unexpressed thesis. He has done so in a convincing fashion through close analysis of each novelist's lives and works. His own work thus proves increasingly effective because he chose "uncharacteristic" men with which to deal...