Word: selection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortune was solidly founded in Hants Fourneaux, Forges et Aciéries de Pompey (iron & steel works). Her mother Margot, née Pereire, was rated one of the best-dressed women in Paris; after divorcing Champin, Margot had married Edmund Bory, owner of the Colony-Club, a select oasis for select society near the Champs-Elys...
...Organization has on its hands 26,000 displaced specialists-teachers, doctors, engineers, scientists. Although their skills are desperately needed in many parts of the world, they have been battering vainly for months against immigration barriers. Last week I.R.O. had its first success in placing a large group of its select men & women. Fifty-four of them, from camps all over Western Europe, boarded a plane at Rome and flew off to begin a new life in the Dominion of Pakistan...
...Communist Party of Florence is flat broke. Last week, Comrade Gino Mazzoni came forth with a brand-new project designed to achieve solvency: let each farmer in the country around Florence select the most promising chick in his flock, raise it carefully until ready for marketing, and remit the proceeds to the party exchequer. While the choice Communist chick is being fattened, added Gino brightly, it might be nice to distinguish it from its leaner non-Communist brethren by tying around its neck a bright red ribbon...
Once he sounded a note strangely akin to modesty: "Do not think of my plays as Oklahomas averaging $120,000 a week or else flopping. My audiences are more or less select and . . . seldom average capacity." But elsewhere in his torrent of advice, the old man sounded reassuringly Shavian: "I rank a revival of Caesar and Cleopatra as the nearest thing . . . to a gilt-edged security...