Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already-established national "game of the week," which the NBC network has bought for this year. More important, however, were the commercial disadvantages of any "package" covering only five Saturday afternoons during the fall, and non-consecutive afternoons at that. Advertising men place a high value on what they call "unbroken impact"; if they are going to pay thousands of dollars to foist their razor blades on eastern football fans, they want those razor blades in plain view every Saturday of the fall...
There is a crying need today for a reformulation of the concept of a security risk. You may fire a man convicted of petty larceny; but you should not call in the security board. All we are trying to do is to exclude people who might, directly or indirectly, give information to an enemy...
Tense Hands & Phone Call. Airman Townsend, slim, wavy-haired fighter-pilot hero of the Battle of Britain, was the first to get to London. Looking fit and 41, he arrived with his Nile green Renault sedan on a Bristol cargo plane at Lydd airport, packed his gear and his gentleman-jockey's tack into the back seat, and drove straight to the Lowndes Square home of Marquess Abergavenny, a close friend of the royal family. That same evening the press learned that Princess Margaret was due in from Scotland next morning. A battery of reporters stood at Euston Station...
That afternoon Peter Townsend went shopping with Mrs. John Wills, the Princess' first cousin, best friend, and the mother of Margaret's first goddaughter. Back at Lowndes Square, Peter got a phone call from Clarence House. An hour later he arrived at the mansion where Margaret and her mother live, and was instantly admitted-to meet Margaret for the first time since the summer of 1954, when he paid her a secret visit under the incognito, "Mr. Carter." Two hours later Townsend emerged, smiling but tactfully closemouthed. "Are you happy?" asked one reporter. "Yes." answered the captain...
...learn to enjoy plenty." The party executive's best proposal was a three-year study to shape policy on specific problems. "That's a fat lot of fire to take home to the boys," grumbled one delegate. "Lump of suet dough, that's what I call...