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Word: call (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arnold teed off again for another nine holes. As usual, the President rode most of the way around the links in his electric power cart. On the second tee, he was called off the golf course to take a telephone call from the State Department. In a few minutes he rejoined Arnold, and the two resumed their game. Ike was in a happy mood: his drives were booming along, and his short game had never been sharper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: How It Happened | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...advance some overall plan of European security which would give the Soviet Union substantial additional reassurances." His closing plea was based on hope: "Let us strive together ... so that when this Assembly meets at its 20th session, it will look back upon the decade that now begins and call it the healing decade of true peace." Smiling & Unyielding. Next day Molotov rose to state the Russian position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: A Decade of Peace? | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...best-known Roman Catholic priest in Germany today is Father Johannes Leppich, 40, whom the Communists denounce as the "Black Goebbels," and conservative Catholics call the "Red Father." Leppich moves tirelessly across the country, preaching and demanding help for the poor. To spread his gospel, Jesuit Leppich has used posters, picture slides, and last week he was busy with a new evangelical idea: "confession" by telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confession by Phone | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...many more might come if they didn't have to look me in the face or tell their names." In Nürnberg, a few months ago, he ran newspaper ads announcing that anyone with troubles not involving such matters as a loan or a new apartment should call a certain number after 8 p.m. Within three days Father Leppich had four priests manning "God's Own Switchboard," as he calls it. Many of the callers are Protestants, and, for Catholics, the system often breaks the embarrassment and fear that may have kept them from confession for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confession by Phone | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...payload and push it faster than 600 m.p.h. at 40,000-ft. altitude. These characteristics make it a medium bomber, although its Navy sponsors, for fear of antagonizing the Air Force's Strategic Air Command and the Navy's own airplane-carrier partisans, prefer to call it a "mine layer." Portable Base. If the SeaMaster proves out as its friends hope, it will add a new dimension to long-range air warfare. It will need no elaborate, fixed and vulnerable bases. Instead, it can establish itself in any sheltered body of water within 1,000 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: SeaMaster | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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