Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refused for weeks to get excited about the budget uproar. Then one day last week, while he was in the midst of writing a perfunctory we're-doing-the-best-we-can speech, he got an urgent call from House Minority Leader Joe Martin. That evening Joe Martin was ushered upstairs to the President's study and bluntly told Ike that the House Appropriations Committee was about to make heavy Defense bill slashes. Really shocked at the prospect of a crippling cut-perhaps as much as $2.5 billion-Ike determined to toughen his speech...
Truck Driver Hooper lowered a rope, but Benny was not strong enough to hold on with one hand. Hooper hurried indoors to call police and the Manorville Fire Department. At the nearby Riverhead telephone exchange, the switchboard buzzed with a sudden burst of emergency calls. For 20 minutes Operator Borghild ("Betty") Hooper was kept busy handling them before it dawned on her that rescue workers were being directed to her home...
...about the serious problem of anti-Sovietism, which really does exist?" Behind the locked doors of the committee room the Stalinists blasted the whole Gomulka line, singling out his closest supporters for vicious personal attacks with an intensity which made the startled and for the most part silent left call it "the black day." Then the Stalinists put their power to test; the general resolution of the plenum must be reworded, they said, to affirm the Soviet Union's "leading" position and to condemn the Hungarian "counter-revolution...
...cost him a few teeth politically. When courtly Antonio Segni resigned as Italy's Premier two weeks ago, the four-party coalition that has dominated Italian politics since 1953 was utterly shattered. The only alternative to the coalition, pending next spring's general elections, was what Italians call a "single color" government-an all-Christian Democratic Cabinet which, since it would lack an assured majority in the Chamber of Deputies, could probably only survive by ducking controversial issues. At President Giovanni Gronchi's request, jovial Adone Zoli agreed to do his best to form such a government...
...Bible course, Bible verses to be memorized, and a Gospel of John. They also fill out a card with particulars of the inquirer's religious background, to be forwarded to an appropriate minister. Within 48 hours the counselors are supposed to follow up with a letter, a phone call or a visit. In most campaigns counselors are expected to nurture their charges until the minister takes over, but in New York this practice cannot be followed punctiliously. "Just too many people," says Counseling Director Lome Sanney. "But we'll do our best...