Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Negotiations for a postponement are customarily set in motion by the home team. Thus Harvard must go to Cornell, unless Cornell should call Harvard and advise otherwise. It would be out of order for the H.A.A. to phone Ithaca. Precedent must be preserved...
...selected for the frequency with which words are used in conversation rather than in literature, which is the basis for most college word lists. Part of the course: a lesson in intimate and intemperate uses of language. Berlitz reasons that even a gentlemanly student ought to know that to call a Chinese a tortoise, for instance, is grounds for water torture...
Delegates of the 850,000 Southern Presbyterians who call themselves the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. wrangled over two controversial issues at their 98th General Assembly last week in Charlotte, N.C. They took a new position on divorce, clung stubbornly to their stand against segregation...
...This Hour." Hundreds of whores (he refuses to number them) have taken Fisherman Rosi's saving bait. They meet him on the street or reach him by his secret phone number-unknown even to his superiors. A call brings him immediately to any woman who needs...
...proposals, now awaiting action by the Hospital, call for either modifications in the rotation system or a new plan which would assign students to a single department for all their work. Crespin stressed that any change in assignments must be approved by the Hospital...