Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood firm, and white complacency turned to fury. Rumors were spread that boycott leaders had used mass-meeting funds to buy themselves Cadillacs. Older Negro preachers were taunted for having yielded their seniority to a young whippersnapper. To lure the Negroes back onto the buses, the Montgomery city commission called in three hand-picked Negro ministers (who had been on the edges of the boycott) and persuaded them to agree to settlement terms that had little if any practical meaning. The commission's plan was to announce the settlement in Sunday's papers, but Saturday night word...
...telephone call came through one day last week from Budapest to Rio de Janeiro's Hotel Gloria. On the Rio end, three of the world's top soccer players took their turns for one minute of conversation. On the Budapest end were the players' wives, all with the same message: "Please come home! Everything will be all right." The Hungarian government was leaving no weapon untried in an effort to lure its topflight Honved soccer team back from a renegade jaunt...
...lordship found himself on the defensive. Is it not true, asked M.C. Bergen Evans, that "you in England refer to what we call slums as depressed areas? Do you refer to unemployed people as a redundancy of workers? Do you refer to a moving van as a pantechnicon?" All too true, said his lordship, and added sadly that Britain's ratcatchers-"a most admirable set of men"-have decided it would be more dignified to be called rodent operators...
...Shane's own original contribution to his collection is what he calls "the last word" on the Coonian Ghost-a Thing that troubled the peace of a house in Coonian, Ireland with rappings, rushings, snatchings, snorings and putting out of lights. Three priests were sent by the bishop to cope with it by exorcism and prayer. One reported that he felt it like an eel twisting around his wrist; another saw the bedclothes of an empty bed heaving where the chest of an occupant would be. "Soon we could hear the heavy breathing, the gurgling in the throat . . . what...
...antitrust laws, announced that it had asked for a grand jury investigation of the industry's production and sales arrangements. Though Justice had been looking into monopoly and price-fixing for months, the latest price increase had undoubtedly helped persuade its lawyers that the time had come to call major U.S. oil companies to the witness stand...