Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newspapers got wind of what was up, and the storm was on. CALL SECRET MEET AS FALLOUT PERILS L.A.. cried Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express. ATOM FALLOUT RISE HERE SETS OFF PANIC. cried the Chandler Mirror-News.Switchboards lit up as anxious residents phoned city officials, newspaper offices. TV studios. Scientists passed out the word. "No danger to anyone.'' said U.C.L.A.'s Nuclear Medicine Expert Dr. Thomas Hennessey. "I don't think the public's mind should be relieved." said U.S.C.'s Biochemistry Professor Dr. Paul Saltman. And when AEC said later that...
...concise four-letter fate for the Army, easily understood when Greek letters were carried over to English equivalents (F.T.A.). But some old soldiers mistook Phi Tau Alpha for a cabal, possibly a spy organization. They put Army Criminal Investigation to work tracking down its prime movers, threatened to call...
...came the wondrous news. A rescuer at the 13,000-ft. level heard a faint call from the broken end of a compressed-air pipe sticking from the rubble. He yelled back, heard an answering croak: "There are twelve of us in here. Come and get us.'' That they did. Swiftly, yet with infinite care, the rescuers dug toward the entombed men, both sides shouting happy obscenities. A burr-tongued Scotsman yelled through the pipe, got the reply: "Take the marbles out of your mouth and talk English." The rescue team shoved a copper tube through the steel...
From the moment he checked into a $75-a-day Dorchester Hotel suite, Frankie had the British press enthralled. Reporters duly noted that the suite contained what even the British have come to call a Hollywood-size bed, and the Daily Mirror commented: "Never was so large a bed used by so small a man with so little apparent regard for sleep." Frankie spent most of his insomnia with Adelle Beatty. Ostensibly in town to introduce Danny Kaye and other stars of Me and the Colonel at a benefit opening, Frankie took her to three parties on three successive evenings...
...popular men in Paris. One example of his talent for smoothing out differences: only three Vichy archbishops lost their jobs, despite the Gaullists' bitter feelings about them as collaborationists. In addition to respecting his ability, the French also liked his cuisine. Roncalli is known as what the Italians call "a powerful fork" (his filling favorites: raviolini, polenta with small birds, hare in salmi, chamois in salmi, deviled chicken, tripe Bergamasque...