Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harrows and plows were loaded into ministry trucks and disappeared. The animals-30 cows, ten goats, eight hens-had been previously boarded out to neighboring farmers. Lady Garbett and her daughter repaired to a nearby hotel with three dogs, twelve cats and three geese. "I call it legalized robbery," wailed Lady Garbett, and retired to bed with a headache. "Grossly immoral and against the Magna Carta," snapped Susan. "Is your property yours, or not?" She did not talk of getting a lawyer. There was nothing illegal about it. It was the law of the land...
Winding up the cannonade, Mollet attacked Communists who "organize demonstrations in railway stations when reservists are leaving" and "call for a ceasefire in Algeria." Said Mollet: "I, too, am a partisan of a ceasefire, but these people make the demand only on France." Though the vote was not due until this week, Mollet appeared likely to win-for as Mollet himself quipped "everybody wants my blood but nobody wants...
...welfare and retirement fund. As Lewis dedicated the chain to "those who suffered and died before us," patients and doctors watched intently from the northernmost hospital of the $26 million network, a five-story, glass-walled building so bright and strange to the Appalachian valley that miners call it "Beckley's Airport...
Thayer, a writer of meretricious bestsellers (Call Her Savage, Thirteen Women), accepted the challenge to find out. The years passed, and with advertising copywriter jobs (now Pall Mall cigarettes) to keep him from want, Author Thayer learned Italian and let his fancy run riot. It ran to 47,000 handwritten pages. A more fastidious publisher might have been appalled by so mountainous an exercise in bad taste, but Dial Press President George Joel, who has made a killing with the sexual leers of Frank (The Foxes of Harrow) Yerby, decided on one of the most massive gambles in recent...
Beyond the Call. In St. Marys, W. Va., after the operator refused to return his dime when he complained of a poor connection, Truck Driver Myles Milton yanked the phone off the wall, smashed it on the floor, told police: "I was tired...