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Word: call (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Prime Minister is required to go to the people every five years -sooner if he thinks the time propitious. The Tories' five-year deadline is next May, but the betting is that Harold Macmillan will call an election in October or November. Reason: he is riding high. Last week a Gallup poll showed the Tories with a 590 edge over Labor, a gain of 2% in the past month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Out in Front | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Call me a come-in fighter, a counterpuncher, an aggressive boxer. Call me anything you want," said Featherweight Champion Davey Moore, 25. "But if you really want to know what I am, I'm a street fighter, man, the best you ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Street Fighter | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...first-class, tax-supported hospitals. To younger elements in N.M.A. leadership, these gains brought a new challenge. Says Washington's Dr. Edward C. Mazique, 48, installed as president last week: "Few Negro physicians can attend well-planned postgraduate courses. In rural areas and small towns they often cannot call in another M.D. to take over their practice for a few weeks. The N.M.A. is offering a compressed substitute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Morning Steroids | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...kill the ball instead of just meeting it for base hits. "You might as well talk to a wall as to Rocky," complains Lane. "He'll 'yes' you like crazy, and go right on trying for home runs." Cracks a Yankee coach: "They don't call him Rocky for nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Season in the Sun | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...begins at 5:30 a.m. with the recorded mating call of a bull ape. After that, for 14 hours, Florida radio listeners within range of Jacksonville's WAPE-are assaulted by the monotonous beat of rock 'n' roll. A three-minute trickle of news every two hours is the only relief; every station break is loud with the lovesick ape. The continuous uproar is so hypnotic that few who hear it seem anxious-or able-to turn it off. Last week one-year-old WAPE finished its fourth month as the top-rated station in a highly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Gone Ape | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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