Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opinion." The church was stunned. At week's end, quailing at the prospect of a debate packed with so much emotion, Deputies on both sides began calling on De Gaulle for his personal arbitration. But the general, having seen his Cabinet dangerously split for the first time, chose silence...
...last, Anna Maria Louise Italiano chose the Hollywood name, Anne Bancroft, from a list handed out by Darryl Zanuck; it was the only name, she thought, that "did not sound like I should look like Lana Turner." Hollywood historians remember her first movie, Don't Bother to Knock, chiefly because it was the first big role for a future star named Marilyn Monroe. Anne Bancroft was just an added starter...
...horror movie. The pseudo-meaningful verses by that overrated American poet, Kenneth Patchen, do not help the listener in his attempt to grasp the unprofound programmatic idea that Mr. Cutler seems to have had in mind. Yet, in spite of this immature approach to the subject that Mr. Cutler chose to pursue, the last two sections show that he has a fine control of the resources of an orchestra. The orchestral song based on a death in wartime is stunning and gripping in its controlled hysteria. The H.R.O. and Mr. Senturia acquitted themselves well as they put the often unrelated...
Both Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, and Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships, were among the 16 persons who chose Adlai Stevenson as the ideal President. It was the largest backing for one person...
...high school, he scored 2,460 points in three years to smash Wilt Chamberlain's record by 208 points. By his senior year, some 150 colleges from Princeton to Hawaii were after him ("They woke me up in the morning; they got me out of class"), but he chose Ohio State. Last year, in two scrimmage games against the varsity, the phenomenal freshman unhinged his elders by nicking home 92 points. Giddy with anticipation, Coach Fred Taylor began drilling Ohio State in an offense that could be draped around the shoulders of his future star when he moved...