Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lady Jackson, who lectured here this spring was cited: "A charming lady whose respected voice and clear mind call the West to freedom through faith...
...George Humphrey, a Taftman before 1952, had a hard time swallowing what the President came to call Modern Republicanism. He could see the point of defense costs as long as they dealt with essential hardware, but he had little sympathy with foreign economic aid, and even less for the "welfare state" programs that wedged their way into the 1958 budget. His doubts broke through, almost by accident, when he made his famed remark last January that continued big budgets would bring on a hair-curling depression. Humphrey's prediction strongly influenced his business friends and encouraged a boom...
...strong enough torture to induce people to confess," has its own terrors. "At a certain point you go to sleep all the same," he says, "even standing with a light glaring in your eyes. It is not a proper sleep, but a kind of half-dreamed nightmare. Hungarian prisoners call it 'the cinema,' and when you say you 'have been to the cinema,' it means that you have passed out on your feet and had visions...
...dream") was tonic to the Menderes administration. Just before leaving for Karachi, Menderes said that he would increase by 33.5% the price the government pays farmers for wheat. Orthodox economists and U.S. advisers were horrified; almost everyone else concluded that the rise was a sign that Menderes intends to call for general elections this fall and is making sure of the farm vote...
...Kill. In his Dallas dressing room last week, Fats speculated about his popularity and Presley's: "You got to hand it to the boy. He's it, right now." But when fans call Fats the undisputed rock 'n' roll king, he chortles: "Man, I carry that tag well-I mean undisputed...