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Word: call (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...examination has been attacked by freshmen, who call it "an invasion of privacy." Farnsworth pointed out, however, that "in the same terms, physical examinations are also an invasion of privacy," and continued that "although there was some amount of silent griping, only a few freshmen refused to write the examination." He emphasized that no one was forced to take the test...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Farnsworth Defends Use Of Psychological Tests | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

After reading your article on what the U.S. is spending on NORAD and the DEW line, wouldn't it be more appropriate to call the whole system the American IMAGINOT line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...have to print such monstrosities as Clyfford Still's Red and Black and Okada's Dynasty and call it art ? They are nothing but nightmares. Give me a Corot or a Bonheur. Their trees and horses look like trees and horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...General Dwight Eisenhower more than any other individual free-world leader who forged and welded the framework of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Next week in Paris, its framework subject to the greatest strains, internal and external, in its history, its heads of government will meet, at the call of President Dwight Eisenhower, for NATO's most important conclave. In Eisenhower's former role as NATO Supreme Commander is a U.S. Air Force general named Lauris Norstad. For a report on NATO, its leaders, its strengths, its doubts and its future, see FOREIGN NEWS, The View...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

Conservative photographers were not the only ones Hillman had to throw out of his store. "Five or six people went nuts in the store. Sometimes I had to call the police but most of the time I was able to handle them myself," he remarked. "I was a varsity wrestler at Swarthmore and well able to defend myself...

Author: By James A. Sharaf, | Title: Pangloss Bookstore | 12/13/1957 | See Source »

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