Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fateful Choices. No other French leader had ever dared to offer the 9,000,000 Algerians what Charles de Gaulle was holding forth to them: a free choice to decide their own future political status, even to secede peacefully from France if that was what they wanted. Algerians, said De Gaulle, could opt for 1) independence, 2) complete political and economic integration with France, or 3) home rule under France's wing...
...college will shun short-term specialization, emphasize principles that endure through technological changes. Oakland will offer degrees in only four fields: liberal arts, engineering, business, teaching. Every student will devote half his time to humanities, spend a full year studying the Far East, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Engineers must master one foreign language, preferably Russian, and all seniors will take a "great issues" course together...
Teetotaling, nonsmoking Otto Graham was just the clean-cut man that small-time Coast Guard (enrollment: 625) was looking for. When he got the academy's offer, Graham's first question was: "Where is it?" (Answer: New London, Conn.) But the more questions Graham asked, the more he liked the idea of coaching in a school that selects its students by competitive exams, and where parties and panty raids are no problem. Graham shipped aboard with the rank of commander in the Coast Guard Reserve, last month set about teaching the pro's wide-open passing game...
...second-place Cleveland Indians faded in the American League pennant race, terrible-tempered General Manager Frank Lane complained that Manager Joe Gordon would need a miracle to win, added that he was eying four or five other men for the job next year. Gordon promptly quit, and an offer promptly went out to the leading candidate on Lane's little list: the terrible-tempered Leo Durocher, former manager of the Dodgers and Giants, who quit his $65,000-a-year job with NBC-TV with the announced intention of returning to baseball...
...belief in "a vast, impersonal principle of order or natural uniformity working throughout the entire universe...which, though not conscious of mere human life, I choose to call 'God.'" And 33 people felt moved to sketch their own conceptions of the Deity since the poll hopelessly failed to offer them a satisfactory approximation...