Word: opted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past years, about three out of five students to the Law School decided to attend. If a larger proportion opt for the school this year, an admissions increase would not be needed...
...next year's senior class will opt for leaving. But along with the fourth House completion, the new rule will uncrowd the dorms, making life more pleasant for all Cliffies...
Shatterly said that if the Army chose to induct him immediately, despite his refusal to sign the oath, he would probably opt for either going to prison or leaving the country...
...personal desire ("Anyone would have to be out of his skull to want to be President"), but refused to make a "Sherman statement" and quoted Dwight Eisenhower as saying that "it was a foolish statement, and Sherman shouldn't have made it." Reagan's reluctance to opt out was justified by a yet-to-be-released poll taken by the liberal Republican Ripon Society, which finds him, along with Richard Nixon, standing "the nearest step away from the 1968 Republican nomination," with George Romney and Nelson Rockefeller far to the rear...
...President may, of course, opt for some sort of sharp escalation early next year to give the illusion that peace is on the way. But it is unlikely that the nation, as a whole, would buy such a performance. It is the Republicans who are exploiting Mr. Johnson's real vulnerability and if their purposely ambiguous pitch for peace sways a majority, they might even begin to think of non-military steps...