Word: select
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things have gone so far that the feeble opposition party, a band of quarreling liberal septuagenarians united briefly last year under General Humberto Delgado (now in Brazilian exile), recently asked official permission to hold a congress to select an "alternate" government should one be needed soon. Salazar refused their request and went before television cameras at week's end to insist that the great mass of the Portuguese people are behind him. But reports of his imminent departure persisted. If he is really bent on getting out, he would want to hand-pick his successor. Likely candidates: respected...
...that his second baseman, Jim Dwinell, is a definite prospect for the varsity, as is Phil Bernstein. The latter hit twice Saturday and passed Drummey as top hitter on the team with 17 hits and a .326 average. Dwinell and Tom Boone are the other members of the select ".300 club...
What is necessary is that the minor sports receive minor subsidies. To continue the present "all or nothing" system means that only people with money are perfectly free to select their sport. This is fair neither to the undergraduate nor to the many alumni who have recently given several millions to the athletic program...
SECRET ROLLS-ROYCE, new patrician-precisioned model called Phantom V, is being developed in Britain. Now built only for select few, e.g., Queen Elizabeth, eight-cylinder car is expected to be in commercial production by early...
...MEALS TO ORDER will be started by Swissair. First-class and de luxe passengers will select from 36 specialties when tickets are purchased, get served in flight...