Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acquiesced and participated in the corruption, extortion, and violence that cemented his power. If Walter Reuther, organizing the United Auto Workers at the same time and in the same city as Hoffa, didn't need the Mafia and their kind of tactics then Hoffa didn't either. Hoffa chose his own poison...
...fully revealed. Here it is, artfully connected and coordinated by The Door's music, and the result is a vinyl package of a man's mind, and the lingering afterthought of his promise and potential. For all his rock'n'roll stardom, Morrison fancied himself a poet. But he chose death over promise, and what remains is "An American Prayer...
Harvard's pressing, overplaying defense led to repeated Crusader layups. Perry chose to shoot, drive or pass totally according to what the defense allowed him. "I'm not gunning to be the leading scorer in the game," he said, "I want my scoring to come in the context of us winning the game. Our guys inside were making good baskets tonight. I can't stress how important that...
...week, soldiers quickly evicted them. Many officials grumbled over a statement by Egypt's Acting Foreign Minister Boutros Ghali that "a political confrontation will occur during negotiations to define the powers of a Palestinian regime." Though this has been implicit in the Egyptian position all along, Israeli officials chose to interpret it as a raising of the ante. "If that's what the Egyptians are seeking," said one, "this is a new ball game...
...endeared him to the people. The unanswered question was how willing he would be to test these gifts on the world stage. As 1979 began, he seemed quite willing indeed. In planning his first two foreign trips, to Mexico later this month and to Poland in the spring, he chose countries whose populations are overwhelmingly Catholic but whose governments have been, for very different reasons, notoriously anticlerical...