Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, the man who boasts that he brought the Fourth Republic into existence gave open encouragement to Algeria's rebellious soldiers and settlers, noted sardonically that they "have not been the object of any sanctions on the part of the public authorities . . . Why would you have me call them sedition-mongers?" But at the same time the general made it clear that he had no intention of leading a coup d'état. "I am a man," said he, "who belongs to nobody and belongs to everybody...
...debate, not a single Deputy had the temerity to question this absurdity or to mention De Gaulle. Then, in a blunt speech reproaching De Gaulle for giving "new life and encouragement" to the insurrection, ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France leveled his finger at Pflimlin and cried: "We call upon you to condemn openly those insurgent leaders in Algiers." Pflimlin weakly replied: "I do not intend to disassociate the army from the Republic...
...rank-conscious hierarchy of Soviet intellectual life, retirement is virtually unknown, and many important institutes and observatories are run by superannuated fuddy-duddies. The University of Rochester's R. E. Marshak was amazed "at how young Russian physicists did not hesitate to call to task distinguished academicians if points of difference arose," but in many fields it is the young who are apt to make the decisive leaps...
...Remember," said the first face, "call them braces, not suspenders...
...Ninth Roxbury Precinct those arrested were not allowed to use telephones. When the host's wife tried to call the baby sitter, police grabbed her and then her husband who rushed to help, Krosney said. A brawl ensued, according to Krosney, in which the police clubbed the party goers rather liberally, and hit some of them when no resistance was being offered...