Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under considerable to-the-summit pressure from Laborites. In talks with Dulles, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd made it clear that the Macmillan government could not afford the political penalties of rebuffing Khrushchev's ploy, and Macmillan himself drove that point home with a transatlantic telephone call to Dwight Eisenhower...
...other officials who were of a mind to make trouble. Against this aged blend of piety and politics, James Howard Edmondson, red-haired (nicknamed "Nugget Head") young (32) county attorney from Tulsa, entered this year's Democratic primaries as an avowed Wet who proposed, if elected Governor, to call a quick special election for repeal...
...clamoring for a firm yes to Khrushchev. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer had privately passed word that he thought something positive must be done. The NATO Council in Paris favored a meeting. But it was Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, putting through a last-minute telephone call to tell Ike that British and Commonwealth opinion demanded it, who put over the idea of holding a summit meeting with a major condition attached: it must be held...
...flies over Baghdad today will be hoisted in Amman and Beirut just as it rose in every corner of the Arab world." Then, with U.S. marines barely 50 miles away, he said: "If we see today that America occupies Lebanon and Britain occupies Jordan, then I say: If they call for peace, we are for it. But if they are hostile toward us, we shall fight to the last drop of our blood. We shall not be terrorized by threats of fleets or atomic bombs. The leaders of the West must realize that Arab nationalism is very strong everywhere...
Sobolev dismissed the U.S. evidence as mere hearsay-odna baba skazala ("an old woman said . . ."). Before the voting on the Russian, U.S. and Swedish resolutions began, he jubilantly declared that if his own was defeated, he would call for an emergency session of the General Assembly. Then, using Russia's 84th veto, he killed off the U.S. resolution calling for a U.N. force. Only he and Sweden voted for the Swedish resolution, only...