Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doesn't mean that if I so chose, that I couldn't go to an area other than in Washington to make a significant political speech." Recalling 1952, when he logged 52,000 air miles and 36,000 more by train, Ike declared: "That is what I call barnstorming, and that I am not going...
When E.O.K.A., the Greek Cypriots' underground, recently offered to call off its campaign of terrorism, Governor Sir John Harding replied by calling for what amounted to unconditional surrender. The assassins were on the run, he said, and the only reason E.O.K.A. had called a truce was "to recover from the hard knocks it has taken in recent months." Now that the terror is back on again, British government officials admit that E.O.K.A. is really still powerful, and will take some handling...
Jamil M. Baroody, the brooding, hot-tempered Lebanese who was Saudi Arabia's unofficial observer at the conference, did not deny that slavery existed in Arabia. "Slaves," he snorted. "What are slaves? It is better to call them servants or stewards. They have a good life. They call their master 'Uncle.'" But he insisted that the proposal that slave ships be subject to seizure was an "imperialist device"-a typical trick of Western colonialism. Responding to the words "imperialism" and "colonialism" like fire horses to the bell, Asian and African nations lined up alongside Saudi Arabia...
...deliberate switch of policy are causing a new Communist era. Once again the air is full of such talk. The idea is that most of the evils in Soviet Russia were caused by one man, and this line is fostered by a lot of people, from statesmen (who call on the present rulers of Russia to turn their backs on the wrongs of Stalinism) down to movie producers (who are dreaming up movies about Joe's crimes...
...Call of the Boiled. In Redding, Calif., police arrested William Sisk on a charge of drunkenness after they found him trying to make a phone call from a fire hydrant, complaining that he couldn't get the operator...