We stood out from the rest, who would be played by girls or women - supers as they were called - hastily chosen early on the Monday of our arrival in the town.

Just as his swinging aim neared its hastily chosen target, a shot burst through the loophole.

Prescott didn't even watch it go; he was already maneuvering his troops into the hastily chosen positions he'd selected on the way in.

His appearance was somewhat shabby withal--his long brown hair unkempt, and his clothing carelessly chosen and hastily arranged.

Bonn, the small Rhineland town hastily chosen as capital of the post-war Republic in 1949, was a means to overcome the past by avoiding it, "a beginning, a city without a past," as Konrad Adenauer put it.

Mr. Garrison had been deputy Republican counsel for the investigation when he was hastily chosen, on July 21, 1974, to replace Albert E. Jenner Jr. as chief counsel.

The piers were hastily chosen last summer when Stan Herman, president of Seventh on Sixth, and Fern Mallis, the group's executive director, said they learned that buildings they had used on 40th Street were being sold.

It had been earmarked for a woman, and when other women were eliminated for various reasons, she was hastily chosen, only hours before her name was announced.

The next wall was breached as well, and the others further in were cracked, shored up with battered timbers and hastily chosen stones that did not match the orderly arrangement of the rest of the castle.