Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Wolfson's conviction. Reason: some states will not renew the racing license of anyone convicted of a serious crime. Wolfson felt that his crime was not sufficiently serious, but after a friendly New York racing-board member warned him that his 1969 application would be rejected, Wolfson chose not to apply. He stayed out of racing until 1971, when New York, Maryland and Florida all granted him licenses. Last year the Wolfsons' stable ranked fourth in winnings...
...Saints' Day, a Christian feast that commemorates the spiritual heroism of the early martyrs, has a double significance to the French. With a canny sense of symbolism, Algeria's fledgling Front de Libération Nationale (F.L.N.) chose Nov. 1, 1954, as the day to launch its rebellion. In the wintry mountains of the Aurès, Muslim djounoud (soldiers of the faith) attacked a police station at Biskra, wounding two gendarmes. At Khenchela, a lieutenant, Gérard Darneau, was mortally wounded by machine-gun fire-the first French officer to die in the conflict...
Because most of the 1400 black Harvard graduates attended Harvard in the late '60s and early '70s, times of conflict and protest at the University, it is possible that many of them chose not to attend the convention because they "do not feel a close affinity" with Harvard, Ferguson said...
Spencer J. Revolds, associate director of admissions at Princeton, said last week more than 300 students admitted to Princeton chose Harvard over Princeton...
Schar said the university chose Segal to do the work because he was internationally recognized as an important "force in realism," and was "very sensitive to the issue...