Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked if he might call Congress into special session to get adequate foreign-aid funds, the President replied: "I would have to. You cannot stand aside and see America's interest deterioriate throughout the world just by inaction...
...hundred years ago next month, a small force of intrepid Englishmen stormed into the sprawling Red Fort of Old Delhi and thereby broke the back of what the British still call the Indian Mutiny. (Some Indians now call it the "First War of Independence.") Last week, as the Republic of India celebrated its tenth Independence Day, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spoke to his people from the Red Fort's symbolic ramparts. Said he: "We have completed one journey of freedom. The second is just to begin. We have to understand that we may stumble and fall. When a people...
...city of thieves," other Italians have been known to call Naples (pop. 1,000,000), and almost everyone has a story about what happened to him there. In World War II, trucks that entered Naples loaded, came out the other side of the city stripped bare. Legend has it that Neapolitans stole an entire ship, plate by plate, out of the harbor. A favorite street game is for a big boy to beat up a crying youngster within sight of a horrified American tourist. The American breaks up the fight and leaves full of virtue-minus his wallet...
...said, Prince Philip was in no position to thrash the bounder himself, the prince collected a few headlines on his own. At Arundel Castle in Sussex, he captained a cricket team during a charity match, let a hot liner bounce off his chest for what the Americans would call an error, saw his players fight to a draw with the Duke of Norfolk's team. At Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, he raised eyebrows by having a drink with his old friend, Lieut. Commander Michael Parker, who was ousted as Philip's private secretary after his separation...
...brass, he lashed out at the New York World-Telegram's Critic Harriet Van Home because she accused him of a lack of brashness ("I don't know what that broad meant"). If Paar can keep the fun and games going, he would like to call his new show Son of Tonight...