Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of schizophrenia, said Edwards, he would have been 100% indifferent to everything and everybody. But the "Selective" fashion in which Podola could recall certain things from the past tended to confirm that he suffered only from hysterical amnesia. Podola, Edwards argued, was in the grip of what psychiatrists call la belle indifference-a "couldn't-care-less attitude about some things but not all things." As an example, Edwards pointed to the gesture-"absolutely incredible in a man with emotional awareness"-with which Podola had alluded to the possibility of hanging...
...Germany's pre-World War II Presidents, Friedrich Ebert and Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, died in Office. Hitler, who did not call himself President, but was, perished in his Berlin bunker...
...postwar growth rates remain constant, Puerto Rico will catch Montana (whose growth rate is the slowest in the nation) in 1991, Mississippi in 1996. Statehooders, who are willing to pay the penalty of increased taxes in return for an end to what they call "second-class citizenship," find that too long to wait, talk of statehood within ten years or sooner. To them, Governor Muñoz Marin's political timetable is less significant than his reluctant admission that the tide for statehood is running strong...
...Lines soared into the jet age last week with the first commercial flights of the Douglas DC-8. Slightly slower than the Boeing 707 (550 m.p.h. v. 540 m.p.h.). the DC-8 boasts a few new passenger comforts, such as its unitized seat with fold-out table, reading lamp, call and air-flow buttons. With the jet, Delta, which put it in service from New York to Atlanta, got the jump on its chief competitor; Eastern Air Lines will not start jet service until January. For United, the coast-to-coast nonstop service came months behind the 707 flights...
...sure that his dreary assignment is punishment for once having run a destroyer aground, there is endless compulsive reading, mixed with lone drinking bouts. Commander Hake is an Annapolis man, in many ways a first-rate officer, but an enigma and a terror to his men, who call him "Admiral God." He is frightening at inspections, when he wears an ancient Navy cutlass. His sole link with the outside world is the erotic letters he gets from a beautiful wife. His overriding passion is to get his island job done at whatever risk or human cost-and he regards...