Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President moved on beyond Bul-ganin's propaganda-rattling to call upon the U.S.S.R., as he had in his State of the Union message, for works as well as words. Specifically...
Striding three paces forward from the swinging central doors of the House of Representatives chamber, Doorkeeper William M. ("Fishbait") Miller sucked breath and bellowed the call that has been his prerogative for eight congressional sessions. Cried Mississippian Miller: "Mistuh Speakuh, the President of the United States!" A packed chamber's applause pealed out as Dwight Eisenhower, following Doorkeeper Miller and followed himself by an escort of four Senators and two Representatives, made his smiling way down the aisle to the House well...
Taking a few minutes off between sessions to gulp down a creamed-chicken lunch in his office late in the week. Lyndon Johnson was interrupted by a telephone call from Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, with word that the Army was being authorized to proceed on a top-priority basis with work on a solid-fuel missile to replace the 200-mile, liquid-fuel Redstone rocket. It took just seconds for Johnson to convince McElroy that the announcement should be made by Major General John B. Medaris. scheduled to appear before the Johnson Subcommittee that very afternoon...
...schools the pupils have come up through, however much interest in learning a very significant proportion (36%) of them had in grades six and eight is completely, or almost completely, gone by the twelfth grade . . . When more than three out of every four seniors in four large high schools call schooling exasperating and tedious, the situation is too serious to be laughed...
...bright orange tail lost from view when officials rushed to telephones in a concrete blockhouse 750 ft. from the launching pad. Out went the news to the White House, where President Eisenhower replied "good" to word of Atlas' second successful launching in less than a month. Another call flashed the news across the continent to the San Diego headquarters of Convair, builder of the Atlas. And in a small office on Manhattan's Park Avenue, yet another call came to Frank Pace Jr., 45, president of General Dynamics Corp., the giant industrial complex that embraces not only Convair...