Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...optimism, said Stassen, was based upon these grounds: first, the Russians were asking intelligent questions at the U.N. about the President's call for an exchange of military blueprints and aerial inspection, "the kind we might be asking if we were considering a proposal by them"; second, the devastation of an atomic war and the peaceful use of atomic energy present "extreme alternatives...
...Hold it until daylight and then call me first," says the big man in Cairo...
...convince them all that we were bound to succeed. I convinced myself in talking to them. At 11 p.m. I got word from our people in intelligence that the palace knew about the plot. I was without feeling. I was very tired. The officer asked if we should call it off and I said, 'No, the wheel is turning and it cannot be stopped.' " The wheel made its full turn in the next three days. Gentle Mohammed Naguib, 51, a good front man, was made commander in chief of the army; Farouk abdicated, and his Premier resigned...
...central problems of U.S. whites and Negroes again blended into one: how to shape law, government, customs, practices, schools, factories, unions and farms in ways more consistent with man's nature and man's hopes. How, within the enduring framework of U.S. society, to let one change call forth another in some reasonably harmonious order. One of the most important changes on the U.S. scene in September 1955, as the nation's children trooped back to school, was the astounding progress of racial desegregation. In Kansas City, Mo. and Oklahoma City, in Oak Ridge, and Charleston...
Postgraduate Quiz. Meanwhile, Sponsor Revlon was not deaf to the call of duty. If one quiz show was a smash hit, why not two? The producer, Louis G. Cowan, Inc., came up with a new idea called Panelopoly (a portmanteau word combining panel and monopoly), which would feature a panel of four amateur experts who would answer questions on their specialties. Adman Norman Norman sees Panelopoly as a sort of postgraduate course for contestants who have tried for the top money on The $64,000 Question. Explains Norman: "I got to thinking along this line when I realized that...