Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would you call the U.S.S.R.'s satellite a flying SOUSSR...
...Morocco's women recognized these words for what they were-a call to shake off an age-old bondage fastened on them in the name of Mohammed and perpetuated by generations of mullahs (teachers). Taking courage from this display of feminist leadership and example from the royal family itself, thousands of women all over the country forthwith cast aside their veils and began talking briskly of emancipation...
...later this month) had planned Aisha's role from the start as a complement to his ,own political struggle. The Sultan placed his children's education in the hands of capable private French teachers. "I want you to treat my children like other children," the Sultan said. "Call the girls by their title (i.e., Lalla), but punish them if their work is bad." The teachers took the Sultan at his word. If marks were low, the Sultan took away privileges such as attendance at palace movies, sometimes administered deserved slaps to the royal bottoms. Like her brothers...
Wounded in foot and arms by the blast, Ben-Gurion tried to still panic. "Sit down, everybody, don't leave your seats," he cried. But the Parliament floor was already alive with activity. "Get an ambulance!", "Call a doctor!", "Don't crowd!" shouted some of the members, as others rushed for first-aid equipment. In the midst of the commotion, two doctor-parliamentarians found their way to Minister of Religious Affairs and Social Welfare Moshe Shapiro, whose blood was gushing from bad wounds in the stomach and head...
...home for a man of McCord's intellectual curiosity and scope. McCord terms himself a social psychologist, but as he points out, social psychology is a diffuse field. Others find more trouble categorizing him, Allport describes him as "A very broad-gauged fellow, I don't know what to call him. He demonstrates the goal of the department...