Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dave Sr., continued Levine, tried to run the show. "He asked that his son be appointed president of the company. During the course of the discussion, Mr. Beck got quite angry, and I refused to go along with his demands. [But then] I received a call from my brother [saying that the Teamsters] refused to unload this particular truckload of whisky. So I mentioned it to Mr. Beck. And Mr. Beck says, 'Well, you see what I mean, Levine, you don't get along very good with the members of Local 174, and my family is stockholders...
When time machines were popular in science fiction, a frequent plot was to call up some primitive and drop him into the beehive of urban activity his old stamping grounds had become--an Iroquois in Times Square, for example. When Garcia Lorca arrived in New York in the summer of 1929 his predicament must have been similar...
...first phone call to the dormitory warned that a bomb would go off in half-an-hour, but the girl who received the call brushed it off as a joke. Fifteen minutes later the same person called again, and House president Julie Farrelly '57, answered...
Miss Farrelly described the voice as "eerie" and "vaguely muffled or hollow." After this second call she notified Dean Lacey, who arrived with Cambridge police 10 minutes later...
...owners of Mount Auburn Street's two coffee house regard each other's establishments with polite airs of reciprocal contempt. Harl Cook of Tulla's commenting on "the place 'down the street," says, "Oh I wouldn't call them competition. They get a different crowd." George Wilson '59, part owner of the Capriccio, suspects Tulla's purchases their coffee from Cahaly...