Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaston Defferre, the Socialist mayor of Marseille, put the issue bluntly to Premier Michel Debré: "It is the government's duty to condemn torture. If it believes such practices are necessary, it must say so. It must not hide the truth." White-faced, Debré interrupted to call the book a "complete and utter fabrication. When the limits of what I would call 'the right to be angry' have been overstepped, measures have been taken." Debré said that "two hired Communist hacks," were authors of the book, though it is issued by a respected resistance...
...Austerity Czar. Frondizi went on to consult with big businessmen, stockbrokers, landowners, bankers-the group Argentines call the fuerzas vivas (productive forces)-and announced a new Cabinet. Key man, as Minister of Economics, was Alvaro Alsogaray, 46, a tough, bouncy free enterpriser in the Ludwig Erhard mold. Said he to Frondizi: "I will carry out your austerity plan, but with my own methods and my own team...
...Good, Happy Style. Jonah used to blow his horn open, and no man in the business blew it better. But Jonah's clarion trumpet call sounded too loud over the tinkle of cocktail conversation, and for most of his career he was never able to make it into the plush jazz caves where the money lies. Then in 1955 he had an offer to fill in at The Embers, reluctantly agreed to play with a mute, and quickly evolved the "good, happy style" that has brought the crowds running to him ever since...
Success has left Jonah with one big worry: that his lip will go. Blowing into a mute all night is a tough assignment, requires twice as much air power as playing an unmuted instrument. Long ago Jonah developed what fellow trumpeters call a "big-band lip," but he still finds the going tough if he does not carefully pace himself. "These people come in with requests," he says, "like I Can't Get Started, and I'm thinking about that F sharp on the end, and I think, 'Man, you can request, but this...
...inform the reader that a tirade is "a sneak attack on a haberdashery," and a syndrome is "a large amphitheater where the ancient Romans used to sin." He dreams moodily of going to Canada and establishing a police force equal in every respect to the Mounties. "I would call them the Royal Canadian Tanta-mounties," writes Wallach, adding with crocodile contrition: "Thoughts like this are basically sterile...