Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state, something that was more romantic-anything, in fact, that would make North Dakota sound gay, cheerful as a bottle of champagne. That is how the question stood. Legislators were batting new names around, and Homer Ludwick had hope in his heart. Perhaps they would drop "North," and call it "Dakota." Or maybe "Miami," someone suggested, or "Dixie," or "East Guadalajara," or, with a nod to their Canadian neighbor, "South Manitoba." Maybe even "Welk...
...them as unneeded). In return, he had one urgent favor to ask of Nasser: that he ask the Syrians not to blow up Tapline, the pipeline that carries a third of Aramco's production through Arabia and Syria to the Mediterranean. Reportedly, Nasser obliged -by making a telephone call to Syria's Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj who agreed. Iraq's Nuri es Said, who waited too long before demonstrating his support of Nasser, saw his pipelines blown up by the Syrian army...
...Call a long-adjourned constitutional assembly back into session, and let the opposition blow off steam...
There is in most of the poems an agreeable fondness for nature, dogs and music, and a great addiction to.what critics call the pathetic fallacy-the giving of human traits or feelings to inanimate objects. The poorest have the quality of a grownup reaching too far for effect ("this little incinerator of so many lost dreams that is called ash-tray"), and a weakness for the repeated metaphor that finds nights, houses, clouds and tears all to be the color of blood. Yet the best are written with undeniable charm, and in much the same headlong fashion that a child...
...other with which in comparision they sink into insignificance. It has frequently happened that as soon as a number of men had finished their papers, the books were seized by some proctor, who, after reading until he came to a passage that seemed to him ridiculous, would call a fellow-proctor to enjoy the laugh with him. Now, examination books are written for instructors; proctors have no right to read them, and those few who take the right and make sport over them insult every student in the examination room. --from THE CRIMSON of February...