Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...damn-the-consequences liberal who first came to the Senate in 1949 after helping drive the South out of the 1948 national convention with a humdinging civil rights speech. "There is no radical movement in America today." he told a TIME correspondent last week aboard the Liberte, "and no call for one. It's a progressive party, an adventurous and international one. with vigor, not just vivacity, that is called for." Senator Humphrey might have been describing a party after his own image. But as he spoke, he realized that his chief competition might well come from someone less...
...White House-State Department request that he represent the U.S. in United Nations discussions on space problems, an urgent request that he attend the inauguration on Dec. 1 of Mexico's President-elect Adolfo Lopez Mateos. The three beige telephones on the desk rang constantly. One call came from a newly elected Western Senator thanking Johnson for campaign help. "Thank you. Senator," replied Johnson, "you're very kind. I'd like very much for you to come down here, come down to the ranch. We'll talk about what committee assignments would be best...
Like most every corridor we pursue into Genet's devious, intriguing mind, this one brings us up against a solid stone question mark. Every statement, perhaps, that can be made about Deathwatch can be convincingly refuted by following up a different train of hints. But then, J.-P. Sartre calls Genet a black magician, and it is no wonder we are unsure how his spells should be pronounced, or what spirits they are intended to call up. All that is certain is that the spell is most strangely and subtly effective
...aware of the great responsibility incumbent upon us," she said. "We have been working all week on a new routine we call 'The Harvard Strut.' It's a real gasser...
...Harvard football team, remembering last year's 54-0 loss at New Haven, was somewhat amused by Olivar's complaint, for Yale has never been known to call off its agents while they were in the process of inflicting humiliation on a traditional rival...