Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles took just as strong a position against a thinly veiled attempt of Egypt's Dictator Nasser to overturn the pro-U.S. government of Lebanon, a threat backstopped by a call from Moscow Radio last week for "volunteers." Dulles handed Nasser and the Communists a thinly veiled warning that the U.S. was ready to help the U.N. or act on its own to help the Lebanese government maintain the country's "integrity and independence." Said Dulles: 1) the U.S. Sixth Fleet is "watching the situation"; 2) some elements of the fleet "could...
...They were killed to alert the Communist world to a major Russian policy decision-a decision so important that Nikita Khrushchev felt obliged to summon four of his principal ambassadors (including ever-smiling Mikhail Menshikov, busy-bee Washington partygoer and TV performer) back to Moscow for conferences, and to call an extraordinary meeting of the 130-man Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R...
Eighteen years ago this month, a slim, ungainly French officer who had taken refuge in London broadcast a call to arms that jolted his countrymen out of numb acceptance of defeat into a renewed fight against Nazi Germany. Last week, on the anniversary of that historic appeal, its author, still clad in the uniform of a brigadier general, rolled up the Champs-Elysées in an open limousine. 'As he passed, his arms flung wide in a giant V for victory, hundreds of thousands of voices kept up a continuous roar of Vive De Gaulle...
...from making the annual $420,000 needed to keep Woburn up, the duke plans a motel and trailer park, will stage a tractor race with the Marquess of Bath in July, will even entertain a convention of nudists in August ("Well, why not?"). For those who call such antics undignified, the duke has only scorn: "Try to sell your dignity to a pawnbroker and see how much you get." Besides, he says with a self-satisfied smile, "the people who have been so bloody nasty in the past are now beginning to copy...
...around them were their "prospecting boys," African helpers trained to look for unusual rock outcrops. As they sat, recalls Contat, "an African named Chiwaro came in with a rock sample. He didn't think much of it, but it had what Colombian miners call morralla [the characteristic mineral in which emeralds are embedded]. The morralla may open into nothing; but it may also open into clusters of emeralds...