Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, where analysis of a man's character from his handwriting is considered a science, Raymond Trillat has risen to the top of his field. He has built up such a large practice that 300 firms now call on him to describe the characters of job candidates from the squiggles they make on application blanks. But back in 1946 Trillat began a second career. "If you can study someone's handwriting and deduce ideas about his character," he reasoned, "why can't you reverse the process? By modifying his handwriting, perhaps you can modify his personality...
WHEN Lawyer George Alpert took over the ailing New Haven Railroad, his first move was to call in a management consultant. As soon as Joseph Grazier became president of American Radiator & Standard Sanitary, he sent for a consultant. While Dwight Eisenhower was campaigning in 1952, businessmen backers called in McKinsey & Co. (TIME, Jan. 12,1953), to determine the 250 top policymaking jobs through which the Republicans could make their policies felt...
Thirty-four penalties were called in the slow-moving match, 22 against the Crimson. The referees demonstrated their ignorance in the final period on a disputed call in which Lewis and Golas were ejected from the contest after a brief altercation. The disagreement was quietly settled by consulting a convenient rules book...
...eighth inning Army coach Joe Palone talked the plate umpire into reversing himself on a call. the Ken Rossano pitch, originally called a strike, went into the books as a ball, and the Cadets recorded their most significant achievement all Saturday afternoon. Otherwise, Rossano had them handcuffed, permitting four hits in winning...
With one away in the visitors' eighth and a man on first, Palone convinced the umpire he had erred on a call to Bill Shepard of the Black Knights. But Rossano got out of that hole by spearing a grounder on the next pitch and throwing to Hastings at second, who relayed on to John Simourian for an inning-ending double play...