Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Remembering that she loved Indian sandals and could not buy them in the U.S., her friends presented her with 50 pairs, from which she chose two. Garlanded with lavender flowers, Miss Lillian was almost overcome. "I never knew you thought so much of me," she told the crowd. "I'm so excited that I had forgotten that Jimmy was President. I didn't even care. The first time I came here, I walked so much it seemed like a thousand miles. But I give you my word, I was happier walking here then than...
...practitioner of a dramatic, restless, 'tropical' version of the sublime that Ferrer can best be understood." The work is hot salsa too, theatrical and loose. In his way, Rafi-as his buddies call him -is the ham his elder brother, Actor Jose Ferrer, chose not to become...
...Acosta chose Harvard figuring that a good education was more important than success in the world of handball...
Unrestricted by civil service regulations, the county commissioners enjoy wide latitude in adjusting salaries of county employees. Not surprisingly, McLaughlin and Danehy chose not to adjust salaries of county employees. Not surprisingly, McLaughlin and Danehy chose not to adjust Smith's pay ($14,700 per year) last December, when they authorized a raise for their own executive assistants to $18,500. McLaughlin argues that Smith lacks the "background" of the other two and that she functions mostly as a secretary...
...county jail. Although Longet pleaded with Judge George E. Lohr not to separate her from her three "very gentle and open" children, Lohr did not relent. To impose no jail sentence, he said, might "unduly depreciate the seriousness of the offense or undermine respect for the law." Longet chose not to appeal her conviction, but she told a phalanx of reporters that she had been unfortunate to fall "into the hands of a district attorney more concerned with his own ambitions than with truth and justice...