Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department calendars one date-December 16-was looming up with the speed of light. On that day Dwight Eisenhower is scheduled to be in Paris for the unprecedented meeting of NATO chiefs of government, an outgrowth of the ringing call for NATO "interdependence" in defense and scientific research, issued by the President and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at their meeting last month in Washington. Yet every passing day seemed to bring more complications than solutions; last week State Department technicians were putting in 14-hour days, and Secretary John Foster Dulles' week was a blur...
...composed on Barti's typewriter), the court last week sentenced the wizard of Akir to 18 months in jail. Mourned the man who would be king of the Jews: "I'm not sore about the loss of the money, and I don't feel the messianic call any more, but I am really sorry that I'm not the Messiah...
Ultrasound, as the practitioners of a new and arcane art call it, refers to vibrations above the limit of human hearing (about 20,000 cycles per second*) In industry ultrasound waves are used to precipitate carbon and sulphur from chimney exhausts, abating the smoke nuisance and recapturing useful materials, and for testing big metal components such as locomotive axles for flaws. In dentistry there is the ultrasonic drill. In medicine a few enthusiasts have reported good results with ultrasound in arthritis, neuritis, muscle spasm and athletic injuries. It will break up gallstones or kidney stones in an animal...
...Dogs can hear tones up to 40.000 cycles (hence the "silent whistle" dog call), bats...
...losing streak, he proceeded to lead all scorers in the next five games, all Harvard victories. He is a pint-sized (5-7) junior guard, with the best set shot and dribbling techniques seen at the I.A.B. in many years. Despite his late start, he gave Woolston a close call for scoring honors, averaging about 20 points per game, and should be even better with a year's experience behind...