Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past years, the CRIMSON has attempted to throw contestants off the track by publishing a largely misleading list of possibilities. In fact, only one of our choices received the Call to the Black Robes in 1957. This year, however the CRIMSON takes the wraps off a genuine list of inside tips compiled with the aid of local racetrack prognosticator Clocker Spanielle...
Nixon also found poor performance in Latin American diplomacy -what Latinos call "blah-blah" Pan-Americanism. The Presidents' Conference in Panama in 1956, sponsored and attended by President Eisenhower, is scorned as "just a gesture" by U.S. friends such as Galo Plaza. Except for Communist crises -the Red threat to Guatemala -Secretary of State Dulles is virtually inaccessible to hemisphere diplomats for serious discussions. He is criticized for staying at the 1954 Tenth Inter-American Conference in Caracas just long enough to jam through an anti-Communist resolution, and fly home, leaving the question of economic relations, dear...
After 18 years as president of the American Federation of Musicians, the heavy-jowled Little (5 ft. 6 in.) Caesar of U.S. music had decided to call it quits. "I don't want to get out," he said, "but I'm tired." He added that he would stay on in his $26,000-a-year job as president of Chicago's Local 10 until he can get his half-pay pension ($10,000 a year) from the A.F.M. next year. Union officials began pleading with him to stay on longer...
Early nuclear reactors were easy to slap down. If one of them made what physicists euphemistically call an "excursion" -i.e., started to react too fast -it could be slowed down by pushing into it a simple rod of neutron-absorbing material. Control rods are still used, but the operators of big modern reactors dare not depend on them alone. Under some conditions, the fierce nuclear fire in the reactor's core can make a disastrous excursion in a fraction of a second...
Scores of Americans and Europeans call on Ruth Sasaki each month. But, says she, "the majority of them are faddists or just curious, and Zen is not for them. In the Western world Zen seems to be going through the cult phase. Zen is not a cult. The problem with Western people is that they want to believe in something and at the same time they want something easy. Zen is a lifetime work of self-discipline and study. Its practice destroys the individual self. The ego is, as it were, dissolved into a great ego -so great that...