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Word: call (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West would call him crazy, said Nikita. His answer was to quote a Russian proverb: "The dog barks and the wind carries the sound away." Barked Nikita: "This program is stronger than the H-bomb. If we catch up with the U.S., we will have hit the pillars of capitalism with the most powerful torpedo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE YEAR: Up From the Plenum | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...ships to the Gulf of Aqaba. Today UNEF soldiers watch as some six vessels a month push up the gulf to unload in the small Israeli port of Elath. But neither the Israelis (who are grateful) nor the Arabs (who do nothing to prevent the traffic) are anxious to call attention to the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Army of Peace | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...research as for giving instruction." But it was obviously no easy job to be a state-university president in a state that ranks No. 31 in per-capita spending for higher education. Until 1949, when S.U.N.Y. began. New York was the only state without a public university to call its own. In a very real sense, it still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Vocational Supplement | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...David Bronstein is no rabbi but a pastor, and the 100-odd members of his Chicago congregation, almost all of them born Jews, call themselves Hebrew Christians. Their group is the first of five organized Hebrew Christian churches in the U.S. (the others: Detroit. Philadelphia. Miami and Los Angeles). In 1934 David Bronstein founded the Chicago church-not formally affiliated with the others-out of a feeling that "I was chosen to bring the Jewish people to Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hebrew Christians | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

Wild-eyed with fright, a herd of 33 Brahman steers bellowed into Kansas City, Mo. last week on their way to a feeding lot to be fattened for market. After an emergency call for help to K.C.'s Jensen-Salsbery Laboratories, the steers were as contented as cows in clover. The reason: Jensen-Salsbery's new animal tranquilizer made of ethyl isobutrazine (trade name: Diquel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Soothed Steer | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

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