Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...childish to refer to Mr. Stassen as "Childe Harold" as it is to call the Vice President "Tricky Dicky." Shame...
Stevenson "fire spotters" (including Adlai Stevenson III) fanned out among the other combustible delegations. Arizona started to burn; it was cooled after a perilously close call. Kansas seemed ready to go; the fire fighters won again. Even at midweek the faction-torn Maryland delegation began thinking about switching to Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington. Jim Finnegan got the word, made an emergency call. "Boys," said Finnegan, by that time on his third pack of Old Golds, "that's all right if it's the best you can do. You can come along later−just...
...national scene. His humility and lack of confidence upon nomination ("Let this cup pass from me") signified mostly that he had not yet thought his way through to seeing himself as President of the U.S. In his new campaign last spring, he personally thought out his decision to call for an end to H-bomb tests (TIME, April 30), and nothing that his friends or advisers could say would dissuade him. On another occasion, he disagreed with some Democrats on a campaign tactic. The tactic, his friends insisted, would be a factor in winning the nomination. "But," replied Stevenson, ending...
Police decided to call on the man whose firecracker was made of lead...
Masked Intention. In Akron, when ten patrolmen surrounded him in a grocery after a hurry-up call from the proprietor, Irvin Harris untied a handkerchief from his swollen face, explained that he wore it because all his teeth had been pulled the day before and his jaw hurt...