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Word: call (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British, who find glorious words for both victories and defeats, have an expression for their retreat from imperialism. They call it "creative abdication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: Independence by 1957 | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...thoroughly disgusted at the nature of your story. This country claims to be working for peace. Do you call this peace when you refer to missiles as "the birds of war"? Atoms for peace is a current project; why not a rockets for peace program? I am a senior in high school and have heard repeatedly that there is a shortage of engineers, technicians and physicists. Who's the fool who shall work on a project to see who can kill whom the fastest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1956 | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...Island, Va., the Navy will stand by to give it the works with two-stage rockets, which will soar 100 miles above it and take pictures of its spinning doughnut. The rockets' recording gear will be parachuted into the sea. When the blow is over, the instruments will call for help with small radio voices, and Navy rescue crews will hurry to pick them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Anti-Hurricane Campaign | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...time Benny Goodman's new band had worked its way through the first set, from Bugle Call Rag through Sing, Sing, Sing, everything in the Empire Room was just as Benny Goodman likes it. People seemed unaware that there was no more space on the dance floor: they just had to dance, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Benny Is Back | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...results were given out in the women's event, but unofficial scorers gave Miss Albright a narrow margin. Tenley had a close call when a large piece of ice cracked away from under her as she executed the first figure, and she almost lost her balance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tenley Holds Narrow Lead | 2/18/1956 | See Source »

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