Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them how lucky they will be to be living nice clean lives. They can join the North Shore Coronary Circle-that's a bunch of commuters-or the Chicago Cardiac Club. The Coronary Circle is restricted to those who ride the 4:15 out of Northwestern station. We call that train the 'Coronary.' It's the only train that has an elevator meeting it at Winnetka. If you can't take the kidding, you're not getting along well. The whole trend in treatment is to kid about it. My first reaction...
...Pretty complicated question, too. Education ought to stop war. Milton's definition would be appropriate, with some modifications of course. "I call therefore, a complete and generous education that which fits men to perform justly, skillfully and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." That is one of the best definitions of education I know. One of the best things that education should do is to educate people...
...crying "wolf" at every roll-call, the United States is weakening the confidence of its allies at the United Nations. After two months of deadlock over the essentially unimportant question of filling a non-permanent Security Council seat, the U.S. is still backing the Philippines against Yugoslavia--the candidate of both the Soviet bloc and much of Asia and Western Europe. This policy of trying to twist each minor decision into a tactical triumph over Russia may show immediate results, but in the long run the U.S. is losing a much more strategic victory--the continuing respect...
...appeared and the Assembly's President is gravely concerned. The Assembly is scheduled to adjourn next week, and the terms of the present non-permanent Council members expire December 31. If one seat remains unfilled, "serious juridical obstacles" might arise. At the next voting, the President will probably call for continuous balloting until the required two-thirds majority supports one candidate...
Four working girls, who call themselves "Zzys, Zillman," had held last (or fist) place for five years. The girls, who live in a basement apartment at 525 Beacon St., have 400 empty bottles in their apartment--one from every party they have given. "Thank God Stacia has beaten us," one of the girls said. "Maybe we won't get so many 4 a.m. 'phone calls now. But we still think she's just as phoney as we are," she added...