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Word: chosing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found some validity in the argument President Lowell used to make, that "to reject one gift on moral grounds would be to certify the moral validity and rectitude of past gifts." This argument seems as much an abdication of social responsibility as Engelhard's explanation of why he chose not to criticize the South African government...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: Goldfinger Buys a Library | 10/13/1978 | See Source »

...hard to decide the lucky recipient of this week's "Cheer of the Week," that I chose a winner and two honorable mentions. The honorable mentions were, of course, satires on those Colgate toothpaste commercials. More printable was this week's winner, "Rip an arm off. Rip a leg off. We love football...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Out of the Mothballs and Onto the Ice | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...KNOWS why voters chose Dantin over the other country club clones. He is, to be sure, a fresh face, having run for statewide political office only once before. Moreover, Dantin came across as the antithesis of Finch, who scared Mississippi's power elite with his howling mobs of supporters. For a while, Finch's excited antics pleased a lot of Mississippians because they thought his fervor would be channeled to bring about concrete reforms. When this went for naught, the poor whites and blacks who supported him decided they prefer a man who quietly does nothing to one who yells...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Ole Miss Campus Politics | 10/11/1978 | See Source »

...election for representatives to the Student Assembly, Adams House residents chose the following students: Marc Baum '80, William A. Groll '80, William Mayer '79, Laurel A. Stadtmauer '80 and Richard M. Wyner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADAMS HOUSE ELECTION RESULTS | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

...draft board and sign up. Well, I signed up." Besides, he had a grudge to settle against Castro for closing down the casinos after seizing power in 1959. According to Trafficante, the mobsters considered "poison, planes, tanks. I'm telling you, they talked about everything." Eventually they chose poison pills, but for reasons that have not been fully explained, the would-be assassins, two Cubans, failed to carry out the plot. Trafficante told the committee that he knew nothing of any attempts by Castro to retaliate against Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The President And the Capo | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

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