Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work like you always do. Otherwise they'll worry there, realize you live near the theater, and put two and two together. I'll stay here with your wife and kids-and don't try anything if you want them safe." Powell left. "I called home at 8 a.m. Stella was all right. He was there, with the gun on her. I called again in the afternoon. Everything was the same. All day I wanted to call the police. But I was so afraid something would happen to Stella and the kids. I worked like normal...
Moments later, police were pouring a barrage of tear gas and machine gun shells into a nearby apartment to which Carpenter fled when he heard the sirens. Sixteen minutes after Powell's call at 9:01 Thursday night, Carpenter staggered into the arms of four furious policemen, begging, "Don't shoot! Don't shoot!" Screamed sweating crowds in the street: "Kill him! Kill him!" Thoroughly bloodied from police punches, but still alive, Carpenter whispered with hoarse surprise: "They would have killed me if they could...
...Claw. The penny has its obverse, and the other side of Frankie can be a shining thing. He has a Janizary's loyalty for his few close friends. Says one: "It's sort of wonderful but frightening, like having a pet cheetah." Says Don Maguire: "You"can call him any hour of the night and tell him you've got the flu, and he will bring you minestrone." When Judy Garland was in a Boston sanitarium, Sinatra sent her flowers every day for a year, and once sent a chartered plane full of her friends from Hollywood...
...chaperone teen-age dances at church recreation centers, take youngsters on trips to beaches, museums, ball games, or on hikes and camping trips. When they find that their charges belong to a street gang, they often try to organize handicraft classes or canteens for the whole gang. They continually call on parents to discuss the problems of the children they work with...
...Russian pianist lay on his deathbed in Jerusalem, and with his last breath he spoke to his young grandson. He told of an antique piano, with a tone so beautiful that it had been called the Harp of King David. Its richly carved case-so people said-was hewn of wood from Solomon's temple in Jerusalem. That part was legend, but the piano itself was fact. It stood, the old man told young Avner Carmi, in King Victor Emanuel's palace in Rome, and Avner's mission was to call on the King...