Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Call to Quarters. In Istanbul, Turkey, brothers Mehmet and Celal Hardal advertised in the Aksam for brides, preferably twins whose father has a home large enough to accommodate both couples...
Trujillo numbers 23,000 well-armed troops under his banners, plus 4,500 police and 1,000 mounted landowners who patrol the hills in pairs and call themselves the "Horsemen of the East." On paper, another outfit called the "AntiCommunist Foreign Legion" has 100,000 bureaucrats, ex-soldiers and foreign mercenaries, including a few veterans of the Spanish Blue Division. The legion drills weekly on a Ciudad Trujillo fairground in trim new uniforms, could probably muster 16,000 with arms. Though the dictator's vast bureaucracy and army are shot through with men who secretly oppose him, these...
When the news broke, a group of panicky Labor M.P.s hastened off to Gaitskell, urged him to call a special private parliamentary meeting to bolster himself with a renewed vote of confidence. But Gaitskell peremptorily refused: "Why? There's no need." He was ready to give battle...
...located south by southeast of the viewer's ear. Horrible example: "Gee. I'd like to fly on a TU-1O4," says the lady narrator. Reply from the Russian guide (south by southwest): "I think it's just as nice to walk in the country you call home...
...time commonly used by astronomers, which navigators call Greenwich mean time...