Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharing the lot of her snow-plagued subjects. Queen Elizabeth II plowed her station wagon into a drift near the royal homestead at Sandringham. had to mush 200 yds. down the road with Prince Charles to find a phone, call for help...
Across the country a score of other call girls willingly spoke their stories into the tape recorders of CBS reporters, and so did the businessmen who hired the girls. Titled The Business of Sex and punctuated by comment from Narrator Ed Murrow. the hour-long report was intended to document a cynical alliance between prostitution and business...
...Prisoner of Grace-Cary has added the Rev. Walter Preedy. In this hollow-chested, egotistical evangelist, the sense of God is like a torment. His specialty is faith healing. To him and to his followers in the London suburb of Pant's Road, it is blasphemy to call a doctor, for that is an admission that God is incapable of miracles. Preedy seems to have worked quite a few miracles himself, and his fame is spreading. This in spite of the known fact that he has seduced a 14-year-old girl, got her pregnant, and allowed her baby...
...first sonnets smuggled by his sister into an exclusive young ladies' seminary (although poetry was then acceptable currency in "date-patterns," his frenzies must have startled the girls out of their wits). There followed an ocean of vows and verses to members of what he learned bitterly to call "the pestilential society of literary women...
...pebbles at the window" of complacency thrown by Thomas Griffith, 43, TIME'S Foreign Editor. Equable tempered, well wrought and carefully thought out, The Waist-High Culture is more inquiry than indictment, utters its qualms with conviction and its convictions with some qualms. It is not a call to the cultural barricades, but an invitation to ponder and reflect on the occasionally wayward American...