Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense without hesitation. At the level of specific answer to specific questions he is far more decisive and less of a procrastinator than Churchill. (When he was waked from a sound sleep to receive Bulganin's note, his first reaction was to begin drafting a reply-not to call experts for an assessment of Russian intentions or to check on Brit ain's defense capabilities...
...took have revealed the real situation in the Near East, the ambitions of the Soviet Union. They have made evident the absolute necessity for the three great Western powers to coordinate their policy." Next day Premier Mollet accepted the mandate of the Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee to call for a meeting of Big Three leaders, and hoped it would be in Washington, and soon...
...What shall we call him? Coward, assassin, savage, murderer of women and babies? Or shall we consider them all as embodied in the word fiend, and call him Lincoln, the Fiend...
...Sick Call & Slowdowns. Not all the humming new factories do so well. East Germany's Communist Party Chief Walter Uhlbricht complains that 70% of East Germany's machine and machine-tool output is not up to world standards, and productivity is low. East Germany's own statistics admit that workers spend 30% of their 48-hour week away from the job, attending party functions or "spontaneous" rallies where Communist functionaries often petition for extra shifts at no extra pay. Furthermore, almost 7% of East Germany's man-hours trickle away in sick call...
...matter of fact, about 10% of current big-studio production, according to one educated guess, are new versions of old successes. The fashion in these remakes is to slap on plenty of Technicolor, sign up a couple of famous players, hire a band to play good and loud-and call it all "A Great New Musical...