Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...encouraging sign was the absence of panic among Republican politicians. Not until two days after the announcement of the President's heart attack did the first long-distance call from a high-level Republican come into GOP national headquarters. The caller was told to carry on with his organizational work. The only perceptible hitches in the Republican get-along were a slight slowdown in the pace of the 101-member national commitee staff and the postponement of a $100-a-plate party dinner in Oklahoma City...
...never have much trouble getting a date. All girls are fascinated by telephone voices, as long as you take a little nap before calling so your voice will be low. The first phone call must be done from notes, to be really effective. You must be just a little enigmatic, and give the impression of strength of character behind your taciturnity, amazing ability behind your boastful facade...
Love is the most grotesque thing of all. Cinemascopic-stercophonic exaltation and benign stupidity mix indiscriminately to produce a tangle which, if either you or the girl friend should call it into doubt, is inscrutable...
However, Jordan this year has developed four passers, Stahura, Simourian, Botsford, and Joslin. With this added stimulus to its attack, the Crimson may be very hard to stop, for if the secondary "cheats," that is, plays too close, Jordan can call for the pass...
Louis B. Sohn, professor of Law and the John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, said that the International Court of Justice should decide whether or not the U.N. has the right to investigate what the French call "an internal problem." By delegating the problem Sohn felt neither party would lose prestige, and the dispute could be settled peacefully...