Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "A charming lady whose respected voice and clear mind call the West to freedom through faith...
...Second Thought. In Dayton, the Journal Herald printed a want ad: "Would the man who was looking for a home for himself and his two boys in the early 1940s please call Mrs. Fogle again...
...Hollywood house. A neat and meticulous man, Stravinsky until recently liked to stand on his head and do morning calisthenics to keep in trim. With the aid of his second wife Vera, he watches his health with hypochondriacal care. After a glass of French wine he is likely to call, "Quick, Verochka, the proteins." His wife responds by bringing him crackers and cheese. Although he is deeply religious, Stravinsky seldom goes to the Russian Orthodox Church, once became indignant when the priest hearing his confession asked for his autograph. For relaxation Stravinsky plays solitaire and endless games of Scrabble...
...combat new ravages by "the influence," a worldwide war is being waged this week in response to a call to arms from the Far East. Supreme headquarters is the World Health Organization in Geneva, which collects intelligence gleanings from around the globe, sends out captured specimens of the enemy virus to 46 nations. In more than a dozen laboratories- including those of the U.S. Public Health Service and major American drug firms-virologists are at work, with techniques as fine and occult as those of cryptographers. Their purpose: to establish the virus' precise identity, pinpoint its strengths and weaknesses...
...State Department is backing Australia's plea for route that will permit it to pick up London-bound passengers in either city so that much of its Australia-Europe traffic can be rerouted from explosive Middle East to U.S. Australia in return will grant rights which U.S. lines call almost worthless, e.g., permission to use it as base on flights to and from Southeast Asia, South Africa, South America (via South Pole...