Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clergyman and grandson of a well-known Swiss satiric poet, Düurrenmatt turned to drama after studying philosophy at the universities of Bern and Zurich. He settled in Neuchatel "because I wanted to be alone, far away from friends who would constantly call on me, hampering my work...
...nation's leading businessmen got a chance last week at Hot Springs, Va. to sound a clarion call for what the Government should do about the recession-but they never got the horn to their lips. Instead, the more than 100 members of the Business Advisory Council, a blueblood business group that advises the Secretary of Commerce on top policy matters, spent their semiannual meeting without reaching any clear-cut conclusions about the economy, particularly the matter...
...rise out of William O. Neale, vice president for sales of Los Angeles' Harger-Haldeman, Plymouth-Chrysler-Imperial agency. Wrote Neale: "The fact is, our fellows don't spend time talking about the recession. They're too busy doing something about it-with phone calls, personal letters, direct-mail pieces. We'd like to invite you to drop into either of our showrooms, so we can sell you a car. (In fact, a salesman will be calling you today for an appointment.)" The Journal printed the letter in its letters-to-the-editor column, with...
Keystone. In Chicago, Police Commissioner Timothy J. O'Connor suspended Sergeant Viator O'Gara for arriving at the scene of a stickup 43 minutes after the call was broadcast, then "standing there with a cigar in his mouth, his uniform coat unbuttoned and his hands in his pockets...
...Calling the Tune.. Author Sheean is fascinated by Verdi's "peasant" response both to the grim tragedies of his youth and the fame of his later years. The words that appear in Verdi's last and perhaps greatest work, Falstaff-"Cammina! Cammina!" (keep going, keep going)-were already his maxim in his null and he kept going at the rate of more than an opera a year. Verdi hated Milan, hated the power of La Scala's management, hated "the rule of the foreigner and the secret police." But to "keep going." he pruned...