Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poland and Russia, he proclaimed, "changes are taking place which if they are permitted to work themselves out will bring these nations into line with what we call the free people of the world." The Americans, he said, are "so blind that they do not understand that it is impossible to starve a modern revolution into surrender or submission. What I would say to my American friends is this - if you are incensed by what you consider to be some of the more repugnant features of the Chinese or Russian regimes, the best thing to do with those nations...
...three weeks since he arrived in the palm-and frangipani-dotted capital of Colombo bravely proclaiming, "My name is Gluck, and it rhymes with pluck," Gluck has got on famously. On his first official call, Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike confided genially that Gluck was not the first to have trouble with his name. After four years at Oxford, Bandaranaike told Gluck, he had only two friends who got it right...
Last week Gluck paid a courtesy call on Ceylon's Education Minister, waspish Left-Winger Wijayananda Dahanayake. Gluck had practiced pronouncing the Education Minister's name until he had it down cold. But Minister Dahanayake's secretary had somehow forgotten to remind his boss of the appointment...
...Vienna Rhinologist Marcus Hajek. The patient had a group of hard, smooth white spots on the inside of the jaw; expecting a trivial operation, he had not mentioned the visit to his family. But the operation went badly-the growth proved cancerous. In response to an alarming phone call, the patient's wife and daughter rushed to the clinic, found him seated on a kitchen chair with blood all over his clothes. He was too ill to go home...
There was no free room or even bed at the clinic, but a bed was improvised in a room already occupied by a cretinous dwarf. While his family was out at lunch, the patient suffered a hemorrhage. He could not call out, but the friendly dwarf noticed his condition and rushed for help. After desperate efforts, the bleeding was stanched. Thus, writes Britain's Dr. Ernest Jones, a hitherto unhonored and still unnamed dwarf probably saved the life of Sigmund Freud...