Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fairy godmother has not heard the call yet. In Worcester's Memorial Auditorium last week, 3,000 Republicans met in convention to talk about their candidates for the November elections. As if Kennedy himself was not enough to worry about, there were G.O.P. mutterings of a tougher campaign ahead as a result of the Sherman Adams-Bernard Goldfine difficulties. Before this gloomy curtain, the Massachusetts Republicans riffled through a stack of possibilities and made their selections...
When the trial began in Nairobi, it seemed inevitable that it would provide Mboya with the kind of martyrdom that is so invaluable in nationalist politics. The first day, Bwana Tom (as his idolatrous followers call him) arrived ostentatiously wearing a Ghana toga of kente cloth. Wherever he went, his followers trailed him crying the Ghana chant: "FreeDOM! Free-DOM!" His new People's Convention Party, modeled after Nkrumah's party, organized an effective boycott of buses, beer and tobacco, staged such wild demonstrations that the police had to call on Mboya himself to stop them...
...service and a knack for the kind of economic planning that is flexible enough to improvise when necessary. By long tradition, the Puerto Rican government had-and never lost-a notably un-Latin reputation for incorruptibility among top officials. With these assets, Muñoz started the institution islanders call Fomento (development), a plan to "free the human spirit" in Puerto Rico by raising living standards above the animal level through industrialization...
...disease, named 50 years ago for the late great Dr. Carlos Chagas, who found that this misnamed "South American sleeping sickness" was caused by a trypanosome, a microscopic animal with a complex life cycle, transmitted to man by bugs. The critters have Latin names longer than their bodies. Brazilians call them simply barbeiros (barbers) because they bite the tender skin of the face and throat...
Reversed Charge. In Draper, Utah, the state prison received a long-distance telephone call from Escapee George Stone, who said he had called "just to see how things...