Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayors of cities along France's Mediterranean coast last week, the U.S. consulate in Nice dispatched an urgent predawn request: call out the police and round up all the U.S. Navymen in town. In half a dozen French and Italian ports, U.S. shore patrols marched into bars, hotels and nightclubs in search of men and officers of the U.S. Sixth Fleet...
...twenty-four cents per capita in taxes. The House's cuts would reduce this to twenty-two cents. It is almost ludicrous to sacrifice important strides in weather services for an annual saving of two cents per taxpayer. Professor Brooks notes that, in 1956, there were about 175 million calls requesting weather information. At an average of seven cents per call, the Government netted over one and a half million dollars in taxes from these calls, which more than compensates for the expense of the reporting services...
...placard on the counter of the Manhattan music store of Carl Fischer, Inc. was modest enough in size, but the slogan it bore was a call to arms. "COMBAT THE MENACE!" it read. "GET YOUR LUDWIG BUTTON.'' The menace: none other than Rock 'n' Roller Elvis Presley. The Ludwig: a composer with the last name of Beethoven. Last week Ludwig van Beethoven was the center of one of the fastest-growing fan clubs in the nation...
...painters Art Historian Richardson puts on the roll call of the "pioneers" of modern art is the Italian-born New Yorker, Joseph Stella (1879-1946). His abstraction. The Bridge (opposite), is a portrait of steel and sinews, of mind and muscle, of man's power and industrial might. The painting evokes an epoch in the history of American art, a period of revolt against "pretty pictures," of the discovery of a new world for the painter to paint. Applying the new techniques then coming into fashion, Painter Stella chose for his subject that typically American scene, the manmade, industrialized...
...idiosyncrasy of J. D. Salinger's hero of The Catcher in the Rye. He has youth's uncertain arrogance ("Girls drool over me") and its superstitions (a jigger of beer drunk at 15-minute intervals will make you drunk) and its wisdom: "It's what you call things that matter to families...