Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stamina for heavy campaigning this year. Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Richard M. Simpson complains that he has not seen the President to discuss campaign plans since Ike's stroke. In Chicago last week, the President closeted himself in a stockyards suite before his speech, accepted a short courtesy call from Governor William Stratton, but was unavailable to 50 Illinois candidates who hoped to gain an endorsement or at least a handshake...
...knots. In Adelaide. Pancho's tennis-toughened hands took such a beating that he lost in five sets and left the court with three fingers bleeding. Next day, heckled by a pro-Hoad crowd, Pancho slammed a ball out of the stadium when a linesman's call went the wrong way. He snarled at a slow-moving ball boy, gulped a handful of salt tablets, and finally took out his explosive anger on Hoad. His blistering serves kicked too high and hard to be handled. He got his racket up to almost all of Lew's astonishing...
...good deal of waiting himself. Menotti wrote the libretto in intermittent stretches over an 18-month period ("At one point," says Barber, "he left Anatol standing in a drafty doorway in deep winter for months"). Barber himself named the leading character after scanning a What-to-call-your-baby book entitled Name This Child...
...Dance, a whimsical leap between cultures. To the chamber music of Corelli and Vivaldi and the cadenced commands of Square Dance Caller Elisha C. Keeler, dancers executed the disciplined, classic patterns that Balanchine has made a trademark. The mixture was unlikely, but when Keeler had twanged out his last call ("That is all; the dance is ended/ The music is finished; the caller's winded''), audiences cheered the blend of do-si-do and pas de deux...
...state capitol in Austin-was unfortunate, for the politicians have never been able to keep their hands off the faculty. As recently as 1925, faculty freedom was so shaky that Historian Eugene C. Barker solemnly warned: "It is not secret to my academic colleagues here or elsewhere that a call to the University of Texas arouses no elation, and that, for a long time, we have been losing more good scholars than we are replacing...