Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preliminary plans call for a 40,000 square foot building near the Harvard College Observatory. In addition to complete office and laboratory space, the project would house a new high-speed IBM 709 digital computer, a faster model than the one now used by Smithsonian to track earth satellites...
...trade: "Whatsa matter, you got no eyes?" Medick is blind, from an accident in infancy. But Medick, a 36-year-old Los Angeles X-ray darkroom technician, has been policing table-tennis players for a dozen years. "I'm sure I've made a bad call or two in my career," he concedes. "But I can't recall when...
Everyone reacted wonderfully in character. New York's Finest, in the shape of First Deputy Police Commissioner James Kennedy, came forward indignantly to ask names and addresses of the call girls, madams and businessmen whose voices were heard on the show. He got no information from Murrow in an interview that lasted just long enough (seven minutes) for picture taking. The New Dealing New York Post found in the program some vague evidence of capitalism's corruption ("Sales are sometimes clinched by a clinch ... in the world of free enterprise"). The New York Journal-American saw the whole...
Many businessmen felt that Murrow had smeared them through "guilt by association." That call girls are sometimes used by business was scarcely news. But, said the New York World-Telegram and Sun: "We just don't believe this sordid business exists on anything like the scale Murrow suggests . . . Cops and other authorities are openly skeptical that many businesses routinely debauch their customers...
...cause of his success is not just his billing as "the poet the Princess reads" (Margaret does). It is simply that Britons of all classes think Betjeman one of the pleasantest men alive. He himself says that he cannot understand why people buy his verse ("I don't call it poetry"), and he describes himself as "a passionate observer of the second-rate." Actually, Betjeman observes a great deal more than the second-rate. He has a unique eye for the twilight of changing times, although he is one Englishman who looks neither back in anger nor forward...