Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pressures. For his part, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had to summon ailing Matthew M. Neely of West Virginia. Plagued by a broken hip, aging (82) Matt Neely was wheeled in, sat uncomfortably fingering a water cup, waiting for the roll call. But not even Neely's arrival in a wheelchair, nor the appearance of Adlai Stevenson in the gallery, could shift the glow of a glorious moment from Frank Lausche, as he sat poised and quiet in an end seat, an aisle's breadth away from Republicanism...
...vodka at New Year's Eve party, Khrushchev told all within hearing that Stalin, whom he had described as a murdering madman only eleven months ago, had in fact done so much good that his mistakes must be overlooked. Cried Nikita: "Stalin was a fighter of imperialists . . . Imperialists call us Stalinists . . . When it comes to fighting imperialists we are all Stalinists...
...allow a few gifted students to accelerate or skip grades. But since the experts do not agree on whether acceleration or segregation might do the talented more harm than good, many cities cautiously keep their gifted in regular classes and give them extra work-a procedure that the educators call "enrichment...
...height of the Suez crisis, Chicago's Marsh & McLennan Inc., one of the world's biggest and most diversified industrial-insurance brokers, got a hurry-up call from the U.N. Would M. & M. take on the job of placing insurance for the U.N.'s 4,000-man police force in the Middle East against the hazards of war? Though M. & M. had never heard of such insurance being written before by a private company, it lost no time protecting the international force. Within 24 hours it had arranged for Continental Casualty Co. to write...
...Latin America. The austere image of the Puritans of 1620 kneeling on the bare beach at Plymouth has obscured in the U.S. mind the more complicated grandeur of the equally devout men who, 100 years before, had kneeled at Mass on their beachhead near the place they came to call Vera Cruz. The notion persists that the Spanish conquest of the New World was a cruel and disgraceful business. Two new books may do something to destroy what Salvador de Madariaga has called "an article of faith" in the Anglo-Saxon world-"that Spain means cruelty and oppression...