Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After winning the toss, Harvard chose to play the first half with the wind at its back "to take advantage of UMass's inexperience." Coach Carole Kleinfelder explained later. The decision seemed a good one at first as Crimson attack wing Maggie Hart scored the game's initial goal with an unassisted tally at the 15 minute mark...
...Chinese quickly rebuffed Brezhnev's offer. They chose to concentrate on a passage in the Soviet leader's speech in which he mentioned "Peking's cooperation with the policy of imperialists," an allusion to China's expanding links to the U.S., Japan and Western Europe. Said Qian Qichen, a spokesman for Peking's Foreign Ministry: "We firmly reject the attacks on China contained in the remarks." Qian added that China wanted to see concrete evidence of Soviet good will before starting any new talks...
...look per bene [respectable]," Cerruti said. "You will do." Then he tossed a pile of materials across the desk and asked Armani to choose what he liked. "Luckily," Armani says, "I chose what he liked. I got the job." Later Cerruti disclaimed credit for discovering Armani. "Discovering a man like Armani is impossible, because he discovered himself," Cerruti insisted. "He had a natural talent, and he is self-taught. He would have stood out from the crowd in any case. Men like Armani are so rare that when one emerges even the blind are aware...
Ezra is the dreamer who nurtures the novel's most enduring illusion. He runs a restaurant as if his soups and stews could cure loneliness and disappointment. The permutations of food and woe inspire him: "Why not a restaurant full of refrigerators, where people came and chose the food they wanted? . . . Or maybe he could install a giant fireplace, with a whole steer turning slowly on a spit. You'd slice what you liked onto your plate and sit around in armchairs eating and talking with the guests at large. Then again, maybe he would start serving only...
...successor to the often mercurial Evans, a product of the working class, Murdoch chose an irreproachably Tory blueblood: Times Deputy Editor Charles Douglas-Home, 44, a nephew of former Conservative Prime Minister Lord Home. Douglas-Home was schooled at Eton and served in the Royal Scots Greys regiment...