Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better hurry and get yourself a ticket, in fact, or you'll be standing with the also-lived-in-Cambridges during a real live I-know-I-chose-Cambridge-over-New-Haven-even-knowing-Bonnie-Raitt-lives-in-California-because-her-first-album-was-her-best sunny spring folk music festival. They play on the high school steps in Weiser, Idaho, once a year for the real fiddlin' championship, but this saves camping out on the football field and you will still hear some fine fiddle tunes played by some fine fiddlers...
...year-old organist fell and broke his right arm. Biggs's physician told him that in order for the bone to heal properly, he would have to forego the next day's solo performance with the Boston Pops, so that the cast could dry and set properly. But Biggs chose to neglect his health, rather than his art. The next day at Symphony Hall, Biggs positioned the organ so that no one would be able to witness the incredible feat that was to follow, and he gave a brilliant performance, holding the tender and fractured right arm with the healthy...
Sure the Knicks won the game, 108-104, but that is not the issue. The spread is, and as set by the neighborhood bookie, it favored the Knicks by five and one-half points. In other words, if you chose to bet on the Knicks' opponents, the Portland Trailblazers, you would win your bet if the Blazers either won the game or lost by less than five and one-half points...
...Uganda had already made their way to Kampala with their possessions packed, as Amin had ordered. They fully expected a last audience with Amin and a quick deportation. When the bulky dictator reversed himself and said they were free to return to their homes in outlying districts, the majority chose to remain in Kampala to await further news...
...years in a decision-making seat, I've heard lots of claims about the serious harm our stories would do, but not one panned out. People are always trying to get me to be a statesman instead of a journalist. It's fine work, but not what I chose...