Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anderson had counted with painstaking, implacable care. By a cliffhanging, 49-10-46 roll-call vote that kept the crowded galleries breathless with suspense, Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 63, the President's nominee for Secretary of Commerce, became the first Cabinet appointee to be rejected by the Senate since 1925, and the eighth in the nation's history...
...Elizabeth II is a handsome woman of 5 ft. 3 in., brown-haired and blue-eyed, her head held royally on a swanlike neck. Her smooth skin, spring-in-England coloring and regal carriage give her subjects cause to call her beautiful. Her voice is clear-toned, with a still youthful ring; her movements are slow and assured. She wears her royal costumes and glittering gowns with majesty and grace; yet in tweeds and low-heeled shoes she gives out a no-nonsense warmth that can put any housewife in Winnipeg or Salisbury at ease...
...such evidence of her kookiness, a Clansman will shrug his shoulders and call her "a ring-a-ding," using a Clan word that stands for anything puzzling, hard to define, but generally wonderful...
...team, representing twelve companies, devoted more time to bombarding each other with press releases than to negotiating. At week's end the talks degenerated into a pointless skirmish over routine procedures of negotiation, and the union's 171-member wage policy committee authorized its officers to call a strike...
From its grey stone headquarters at 1 Gorky Street, Moscow, Intourist is run by balding, stocky Vladimir Ankudinov, fiftyish, who has managed to hold onto his job for seven years. Says Ankudinov, with a gold-toothed smile: "I am what you would call a Soviet businessman." He has plenty of business. Intourist runs 18 hotels throughout Russia, has more than 8,000 employees, handles all accommodations, meals, transportation and incidentals for half a million visitors to Russia each year (most of them from the East European countries...