Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impasse at Little Rock came to a showdown, the key figure was little (5 ft.1 in., but "please don't call me tiny") U.S. District Judge Ronald Norwood Davies. who came temporarily from Fargo, N. Dak. to preside over the Eastern District of Arkansas. To report on the life and times of Judge Davies, TIME Chicago Correspondent Ed Darby flew to wind-blown North Dakota (his plane was grounded on the way to Grand Forks when a door flew open in mid-air). And one night, done with work for a while. Ronald Davies sat shirtsleeved in his Little...
...Evidence." By leaving the rest of the hearing uncontested, the Faubus lawyers foreclosed themselves from hope of successful appeal from the facts and the evidence presented after the walkout. As for the U.S., which had nearly 200 witnesses on call, the case was simplified by the Faubus default. Result: only eight witnesses were called...
...weeks along a 5,000-mile arc stretching from northern Norway to southern Turkey. Operation Deep Water will see some 10,000 U.S. marines make a landing on the famed Gallipoli Peninsula, guarding the Dardanelles at Russia's back doorstep. Operation Counter Punch, in Central Europe, will call into action all NATO's air strength together with the national air-defense systems of Britain, France, Belgium and The Netherlands. All in all, more than 250,000 men, 300 ships and 1,500 aircraft are participating in the biggest maneuvers since World War II. Formidable as these forces sound...
...those in any other Nazi-invaded country, and during the 62 days of resistance more Nazi soldiers were killed than there were men in the entire Norwegian army. Aboard a British cruiser, Haakon escaped at last to England, where his voice, broadcast by the BBC, carried on a clarion call for resistance to those he left behind. Thousands turned out in a driving rain to greet him when he returned home in 1945, and the re-enthroned King, sensing his people's wishes, began his new reign by rejecting all pleas for clemency for the traitor Quisling...
Marshal Sarit, onetime heavy drinker now reformed (liver trouble) who raises orchids and roses in his spare time, seemed genuinely sorry that he had found it necessary to call in his tanks and troops to remove Pibul. "I would like to say," said the marshal wistfully, "that I am not pleased with what I am doing. I will always be grateful to the Prime Minister. He has done a great deal for the nation...