Word: select
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First T.K.O. In making his half move, Rockefeller obviously bought time for himself. He has given the brokers who select and control delegates reason to pause in the coming weeks before committing themselves to Nixon. Some of his own support may solidify, a favorite son or two may be won over, and a write-in campaign in a smallish, friendly state like Oregon could yield vastly encouraging results. Nixon, meanwhile, might blunder or falter...
After years of dictatorial rule over Illinois' Democratic apparat, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley faced a potential party uprising as his organization's slate-making committee gathered to select candidates for Senator and Governor in this year's elections...
Underground Doctrine. Strachey and Keynes were leaders of the Cambridge contingent of that select literary circle, the Bloomsbury group. Its members' intellectual attainments were beyond dispute, but a central preoccupation, suggests Rees, was homosexuality. Nor was it confined to this group. At both Oxford and Cambridge in the period between the World Wars, writes Rees, "homosexuality, among undergraduates and dons with pretensions to culture and a taste for the arts, was at once a fashion, a doctrine and a way of life." It also reached well beyond the university. Since Oxford and Cambridge produced the governing classes of Britain...
...expected me, since I was eldest, to lead the house and to be energetic. I was 13, just about 14. They expected more independence from me and I sorta developed it. But I still stayed a bookworm and eventually I went to a Catholic high school that was very select...
THEY TOOK mostly upper middle class kids at that select Catholic high school and a few lower class kids who were very able. In a class of 33 kids, 28 ended up as Merit Finalists. It was the cream of the crop of the Italian community of Cleveland. I quit that school after a year and a half or rather I was kicked out. I found the education irrelevant. I wanted to go to class and get B's, enough to get by, but outside of class I wanted to be on my own, read books I wanted to. Most...