Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hazy but Hopeful. Confronted with these limited proposals, the U.S.S.R. could not sit idle without suffering a considerable propaganda defeat. The day after Stassen made his call for an exchange of troop movement data. Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko unveiled a brand-new Soviet disarmament plan. Its main features...
...courtroom was shabby and ill-equipped. There were no proper gowns available for the lawyers, and when the visiting judge went to reach for the bell to call for order, he found none. "In the north," he said, "lawyers have gowns, and judges have bells. Here we have poverty." Then he turned to the man who had tried to alleviate some of that poverty...
...China. Ex-Police Commissioner Baylot testified he had done nothing about the leaks. Pleaded Baylot: "You know.how it is. Whenever you signal something like that, somebody will tell you he'll take care of it. And if you insist that something be done, then they insult you and call you a McCarthyite...
Backstage. Cops ease Hampton into dressing room. "And now cool off, father," says one, in Dutch. Hampton stunned. "What did I do? Arrested for jazzing," he moans. "Call the ambassador!" Tears off shirt. Washes. Puts on green wool shirt. Doesn't want catch cold. After 45 minutes go by, has cooled off. Police let him out. Band and Hampton drop into bus, churn off to Schiphol Airport and fly off. Real gone...
...these ills, said Dr. Hodges, "there is a pretty reliable cure. First, call the press in. Tell them your story. Let them speak to a living doctor and let them quote him as a flesh-and-blood human being, not an anonymous spokesman for the local medical society. Give them a chance to ask questions, and answer them intelligently. Don't consider that medical matters are necessarily secret matters. Take time to spell words out when you must use words unknown to the public. Medical practice is for the public and, in effect, belongs to the public...