Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deputy left, and Earl Long, 63, stood alone in a simple white room whose window was guarded with heavy wire mesh. Outside, the corridor was kept locked at both ends, and close by, within a moment's call, were two male nurses. Earl Long, serving for the third time (1939-40, 1948-52, 1956-60) as one of the most powerful and certainly one of the most controversial Governors of any U.S. state, drifted aimlessly around, strolled up and down the corridor, babbling endlessly to himself. And back in Louisiana, thousands of men and women, those who had voted...
...Selwyn Lloyd or ensure his continuance in office. The simplest explanation was that the august Times of London-by blowing up run-of-the-mill speculation-had goofed, and the lesson of it was that the once mighty Thunderer is really now, as so many Fleet Streeters call it, old Aunty of Printing House Square. The further consequence of the flap was that plodding Selwyn Lloyd could now consider himself more secure...
Chanting Police. Its methods of recruitment are novel: believers go in relays to the house of a hoped-for convert and, day and night, chant the magic formula. Irate neighbors frequently call the police but are sometimes flabbergasted to find that the policemen often belong to Soka Gakkai too, and join their voices to the chanting. Often the unfortunate target will give up and become a member of Soka Gakkai just to get some sleep...
...Elaine sidled back into the act to declare: "I won't feel I'm divorced from him until my California decree becomes final next year." Rumbled the judge who granted it: "I intend to look into the Mexican divorce and do whatever my legal duties call for." Said father-to-be (his fourth child) Rooney: "We're just elated that everybody in the world is put out by our happiness...
Over the years, the Geographic has compiled a roll call of contributors, lecturers and explorers that scans like a picket fence of U.S. history: Robert E. Peary (to whose 1906 assault on the North Pole the society contributed $1,000), Colonel George W. Goethals (who built the Panama Canal and told Geographic members all about it), Wilbur Wright, Teddy Roosevelt, Charles Lindbergh, Richard Byrd, Billy Mitchell (who propounded his theory of airpower in the March 1921 issue), "Hap" Arnold, Chester Nimitz, Arthur Radford. Equally impressive is the Magazine's current board of trustees, e.g., U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice...