Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police officer, joined Harvard in June after a six-year stint (including one year as director of security) with the department of public safety at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A seven-member committee of administrators, professors, the acting police chief and a student at the Law School chose Chafin from a pool of 200 applicants one year after the position was vacated. Joe B. Wvatt, vice president for administration and a member of the search committee, says the committee selected Chafin because of his blend of urban and university police experience, each of which earned him impressive recommendations...
Last year, over 80 professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences chose to take one- or two-semester leaves. Although leave-taking creates some minor administrative headaches for department officials and a few course selection disappointments for students, it does allow faculty members to recharge their intellectual curiosity, and it inevitably leads to another year's publication of major works...
Carter carefully chose his ground for making a stand. He did not really have to veto the $37 billion military procurement bill, which was an authorization for spending, not a final appropriation. He could have bargained with Congress for what he wanted before the final bill was passed. But he was determined to make a public issue out of the $2 billion nuclear aircraft carrier that Congress had included in the bill over his objections...
Sergio Cardinal Pignedoli, 68. The most congenial and outgoing of the top tier of papal candidates, Pignedoli (pronounced Peen-yeh-doli) was Pope Paul's closest confrere among the Cardinals, a man whom the Pontiff most often chose for the concelebration of Mass, as a companion for trips abroad or to stand at his side for speeches from St. Peter's balcony. Ordained at 22, he has served in a wide range of jobs - including a harrowing tour as the first Italian navy chaplain to accompany a submarine crew into action in World War II. He earned...
Until the Inquisition's crackdown, the villagers were more confused than threatened by theological conflict. Some chose to "fish from both banks," as one witness put it. Pierre Maury, a goodhearted shepherd who followed the seasons across the Pyrenees into Catalonia and back again, explained, "I want to use what I earn from my work to do good to both sides. Because really I do not know which of the two beliefs is the more valid. Although, in fact, I support rather the faith of the heretics. But that is simply because my communications and relations with the heretics...