Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the nationwide storm over Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer seems largely to have subsided, a few students and alumni of the College evidently enjoy trying to thunder away in protest over the atomic scientist's recent appointment as William James Lecturer for next year. The protests would barely call for a reply--if they did not continue a regrettable defamation of a man who is by all standards loyal, deeply intelligent, and certainly qualified to lecture in philosophy and psychology...
Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson announced yesterday that he was seriously considering a new plan which would cut the two-year service period of some draftees to 18 months, and would probably double the present draft call...
Technological Revolution. Effective missiles call for a technology that did not then exist. The need was for better rocket motors, more sophisticated electronics, more intelligent computers, more sensitive instruments. The demand was for new metals, ceramics, fuels, new physics and mathematics. New production methods were called for-in short, a technological revolution...
...Force people call missiles "birds" or "vehicles" (pronounced vehicles). Army people usually call them "rounds," probably an unconscious attempt to emphasize their contention that missiles are artillery,' not airplanes...
...belief that a Pulitzer Prize plum had dropped into their laps, top Post executives saw Hughes repeatedly, without seeing through him. Once, when things seemed about to come to a head, Publisher Phil Graham rushed to tell Attorney General Herbert Brownell that the paper might have to call him at any hour of the day or night with a startling story. Graham could not tell him about it, but a baffled Brownell obliged with his night telephone number...