Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algeria. They were followed over the years by a steady trickle of impoverished French and Corsican peasants and by the dispossessed of Spain, Italy and Malta. Today, one Algerian in ten-some 1,060,000 people-is of European ancestry, though perhaps only a third of those who call themselves French are, in fact, of French descent...
Unlike the British in India, the Frenchmen of Algeria are far more than just a governing caste. Though they are often all loosely called colons, only 22,000 of them are landowners, and of these only a few score are genuinely wealthy. The rest of Algeria's Europeans are policemen, office workers, garage proprietors, locomotive drivers, skilled laborers and tradesmen who call themselves French but call Algeria home. To their talent and initiative, the land owes such economic strength as it possesses...
...Death to the plan." From Athens, Makarios dispatched an inflammatory statement: "I call upon the Greek Cypriot people to oppose vigorously the enforcement of the new British plan and to fight it as one man." The Greek EOKA terrorists who shot down Mrs. Cutliffe had apparently got the message...
...comic felt at peace with the world, so he decided to call a boyhood pal, now an undertaker in Ohio. "This is Elwood P. Suggins," he said, choosing a phony name and his best rube twang. "My brother passed away Sunday a week, and I wonder if you could do a job." Said the undertaker: "Good God, man, Sunday a week! Where is he?" Replied the comic: "Out on the porch against the lattice. That cold spell that set in kept him harder than a carp. But then that warm spell set in, and he commenced to get pretty fleshy...
...Best Sells Better. What sells best all over the world are the finest pieces in top condition. "It's easier to sell what I'd call a blue chip in antiques even at a high price than a cheaper, less satisfactory one," says Samuels. Almost every item in the current French & Co. exhibition is worth 20% to 50% more than it cost at purchase; some have appreciated four and five times their cost...