Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faubus, in theory a state Governor with police powers to dispel unlawful assemblies: "I don't know what to do about the Van Buren situation. I'll have to check into it." And although the great majority of Van Buren's white children ignored the strike call and went to school, it was the hoodlums who won. Number of Negroes attending Van Buren on the third day of school: not 13. but three. Number of Negroes attending on the fourth day: not three, but none. Once more, court orders notwithstanding, Van Buren High was lily-white...
Young Edmund, eldest of four children, picked up pocket money carrying the San Francisco Call and Chronicle, was a better-than-average student, starred in extracurricular activities. "I have always wanted to be a leader," he recalls. He won first prize in a grade school oratorical contest, ended his speech with the deathless words: "Give me liberty or give me death!" That promptly got him dubbed Patrick Henry Brown-and he has been Pat Brown ever since. But leadership had its problems for cautious Pat Brown. He was easily the best-liked kid at San Francisco's Lowell High...
Beside Loujean's bed was a telephone extension. Clutching her crimsoning nightgown she dialed the operator, gasped: "Please help me! Call the police! We're being murdered here!" Eight-year-old Melvin, swallowing his fright, took the phone from the trembling hand. Said he, manfully: "Tell the police I'll be waiting downstairs outside for them." Counseled the operator: "No. Stay inside. Stay by your mother...
...majority in Parliament-is headed by 57-year-old Socialist Karl August Fagerholm, a former barber and longtime boss of the Finnish State Alcohol Monopoly. Scarcely had Fagerholm been sworn in when he 1) stepped up negotiations for a $50 million World Bank loan, and 2) insisted that Moscow call off the projected visit to Finland of Old Bolshevik Otto Kuusinen, Helsinki-born member of the Russian Party Presidium and father of Finnish Communist Party Leader Hertta Kuusinen. From across the Russian border that runs just 40 miles from Helsinki came a growl of disappointment. "Reactionary . . ." snapped Moscow...
Last week, as he contemplated licensing still another supermercato over the protests of the Reds and the merchants, Milan's Mayor Virgilio Ferrari said: "It doesn't matter to me that those whom people call supercapitalists are running this business. What matters is that people pay less." (Supermarket prices average about 10% below those in the shops.) From a Milan housewife came even more heartfelt praise. Said she: "I enjoy a trip to the supermarket more than seeing Yul Brynner in the movies...