Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most important group which went abroad was the Select Committee on Foreign Aid, headed by Massachusetts' Christian Herter. After six weeks of assessing Western Europe's misery, the committee returned last week. It had exhibited congressional statesmanship at its highest. Committee members had talked to heads of governments, opposition political parties, organized labor leaders, workers, farmers, industrialists. They brought back trunkloads of data and notebooks crammed with impressions...
...just what she wants for setting up housekeeping, Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced last week. He got the tip from 64-year-old Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, wife of the former Governor General and a relative, by both blood and marriage, of the bride.* Princess Alice herself will select the silver, which will then be inscribed with Canada's best wishes...
From this array the Committee plans to select four leading possibilities and present them for the consideration of students and alumni. Then after sensing response over a five-month-odd period, thinking in terms of a final decision will begin and the Committee will slate another meeting...
...enough beds are not offered it is agreed, it will be necessary to select a man and place him in the room where occupants are presently "least inconvenienced." Before arbitrarily selecting someone, however, the Masters have offered men concerned an opportunity to choose a friend as an additional roommate...
Then Joe drove out to Lincoln Park, an amusement park seven miles out of town. There 1,500 select guests, Democrats and Republicans, sipped Martinis and Manhattans out of paper cups in a big dance hall. Then they all girded on "Joe Martin Day" aprons and addressed themselves to the corn, clams, lobsters and beer of a traditional New England clambake. Joe, an old hand at this sort of thing, expertly did away with a heap of clams and half a lobster. Licking buttery fingers, the crowd sang...