Word: call
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...focused attention on the Catholic issue that the Democratic Party, if only to avoid the appearance of religious bias, will at least have to nominate a Catholic for Vice President. And if Kennedy and Brown cut each other up too much in the preconvention campaigning, then the call might go to still another Catholic-say Steve McNichols. Indeed, so well defined has the Brown-McNichols rivalry become that McNichols backers have a favorite song: "Oh, we'll hang Pat Brown to a sour apple tree...
...reactionaries but Nikita Khrushchev who seemed nervous. From the moment of his arrival in Peking. Khrushchev had been publicly pressuring his hosts to "do everything possible to preclude war as a means of settling outstanding questions"; five times in as many minutes he had sounded the call for "peaceful coexistence"; in pointed reference to his U.S. trip, he declared that "the leaders of many capitalist states are being forced more and more to take account of realities." Mao smiled and applauded, but made no answer...
...sources of tension, the most dramatic has been the return of what the Congolese call the Mundele ya Mwinda, the White Man with the Lantern. The Mundele superstition goes back to the time when Belgian officials would come into a village at night to round up Congolese males for forced labor. Gradually, the blacks began to see these officials as one all-powerful demon, whose lantern cast an evil spell. Though no one knows exactly who brought the legend of the evil White Man back to life, thousands of Congolese are today convinced that he is once again stalking...
Alone and afoot on Hollywood Boulevard in the small hours, TV's volatile Producer-Actor Desi (I Love Lucy) Arnaz, 42, was collared last month by roving plain-clothes vice squadmen, booked on a "plain drunk" rap. Protesting his sobriety and threatening to call his friend, G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, into the case, Arnaz finally coughed up $21 bail, was driven home by his chauffeur. Last week when the case came up in court, Arnaz did not. Bail forfeited. Case closed...
With the construction of a 400-car parking garage this fall, M.I.T. begins a program which may call for as many as ten such structures in the next few years. Because of the number of cars now parking regularly at the Institute and elsewhere in Cambridge, open lots are "a luxury we can no longer afford," President Julius A. Stratton explained...