Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Monro has previously indicated that he would not feel it in the Deans' power to call for a new election unles some concrete evidence of dishonesty were brought forward...
Dogherty also stated that an "informal" meeting of the Senior Class Committee and the four Marshals has been called for this evening in P.B.H. First Marshal Marc E. Leland '59 emphasized that this would definitely be an informal get-together since only he is empowered to call a formal meeting of that group. He added, however, that he would be glad to attend such a meeting, which according to Dogherty will consider possible courses of action in light of the recent petition...
Ever since, Communist Gomulka has been trying vainly to lure the peasants back into what his government calls "cooperatives." Biggest lures: fat, long-term loans to any group that wants to socialize itself; cut-rate machinery and fertilizer, plus state money to buy livestock and state land if needed. As a result, 499 collectives were formed in 1958-but in the same year 470 were dissolved. Typical example: five farmers near Warsaw announced that they intended to form a cooperative farm. The government lent them funds to buy pigs and offered land to raise them on. Starting with eight brood...
Down through the years, as the zing of arrows gave way to the boom of the bomb, the people who live on the roof of the world never complained about all the noise down below. All they asked was to be left alone. Except for the occasional call by Lowell Thomas or somebody looking for the Abominable Snowman, they got their wish. Down below, Hannibal and Hitler, Socrates and Sinatra flashed by; high in the Himalayas, ignorant and innocent of it all, the people went right on hunting snow leopards, dodging devils and waiting for the reincarnation of their uncles...
Monro added that, as far as he knew, the power to call for a new election rested with the Council and its president, Leland, thus putting Leland in a key position on both sides of the affair