Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heard from Brownell over the maximum-security telephone in his personal quarters. The news was all bad. A mob ruled at Central High. School Superintendent Virgil Blossom (voted the city's Man of the Year in 1955, now vilified for backing a gradual integration plan) had excitedly called the Justice Department: "Mayor Mann wants to know who to call to get federal help...
...streets of Little Rock. I wish I could cast one vote for impeachment right now.'' South Carolina's Senator Olin Johnston went even further. "If I were Governor Faubus," he said, "I'd proclaim a state of insurrection down there, and I'd call out the National Guard, and I'd then find out who's going to run things in my state...
...addressing the sons of commoners as "my child," the sons of peers as "my dear child," and young peers in their own right as "my darling child." As for the young Duke and heir to the throne, the word has gone round to all his 92 young schoolmates to call him plain "Charles...
...said. "I've been in Cambridge since spring. Before coming here, I spent two years in Egypt and another two in Madagascar. Lawson's my first name, not my last name. I had quite a time deciding what I would name this place. I didn't want to call it the Cambridge Academy of Fine Arts. Everybody around here likes to name their shop 'The Cambridge this' or 'The Cambridge that.' Lawson seemed to work all right, though...
Malott told the student leaders to act fast to change the system or the faculty would change it for them. This appeal to the student body was a last, feeble call based on the old "Freedom and Responsibility" slogan: that is, the students should work out their own problems by themselves. This appeared a bit ridiculous since the validity of "Freedom and Responsibility" rests largely on the recognition by the group of its responsibility. The Cornell student body had to be told to recognize its responsibility...