Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free by Sherman's men, and grandmother had to flee from Marietta escorted by the family coachman, a slave named Monday Russell (because he was born on Monday); Old Slave Monday lived on to serve in that carpetbag Georgia state legislature come Reconstruction. Dick was taught to call Negroes "the colored people" and he admired and respected them in that special, paternal Southern way. Once, when he considered joining the Ku Klux Klan, his father took him aside and handed out some advice that was to last Dick the rest of his life: "Son, any organization where the members...
...step out of the path of cars. Roaming the parks and roads, scavenging for pride, for some kind of self-identification and for excitement, the gangs (125 in all New York) too often base their conduct on moviedom's version of swaggering honor, red-blooded achievement. They call themselves Egyptian Kings, Dragons, Beacons, Imperial Knights, Fordham Baldies, Comanches...
...smashing Hungarian independence, or that Ceylon was one of the five signing nations. Afterwards, he explained that he knew the name of India's Prime Minister, but he could not pronounce Jawaharlal. And the name of the Prime Minister of Ceylon "is a bit unfamiliar now; I cannot call...
Checking up on public response to the idea of the four-day work week, which may be labor's next great clarion call, Gallup pollsters last week found that relatively few Americans want more leisure. Of those questioned, 61% rejected the four-day week (31% say yes, 8% had no opinion). Biggest single occupational group to turn thumbs down on the idea: farmers (76%); manual workers mustered the strongest approval (39%). Fifty-four percent of the nation's men opposed the four-day week. By contrast, 67% of the women voted against it-presumably to keep husbands from...
Laugh if you will, call it going back to the womb--Vag was born in Cambridge--but the fact is that Vag depended on it. He had lived in the vicinity of Cambridge and Boston ever since he could remember and had never thought very seriously of leaving...