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Word: call (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even if there had been no question as to the honesty or the mechanical procedure of the election I still think that it is within the rights of the class to call a new election at any time it sees fit. The class marshal position is primarily for the class and not merely for the glory of those elected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARSHAL'S STATEMENTS | 1/9/1959 | See Source »

...thou the second coming of Christ?" he is asked, and his admirers call him their messiah. To the whites, he is either the biggest demagogue to come down the pike, or a deluded mystic, and in either case dangerous. Never has Dr. Banda appeared in better-or worse-form than last week, on his return from Nkrumah's All-African Peoples Conference in Accra. The experience had been heady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NY AS ALAND: The Extremest Extremist | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Last summer, while shooting his third movie (Mardi Gras) in Hollywood, Pat wrote a sun-drenched book: 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty (Prentice-Hall; $2.95). By last week its call for healthy-mindedness among "my friends out there in Teen-age Land" was influencing so many of them (or their Lolita-stunned parents) that the book had become a major bestseller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Teen Commandments | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...University of Louisville. The Pittsburgh Steelers gave him a brief tryout, sent him home. Disappointed, he got a job with a pile-driving crew, played football on the side (salary: $6 a game) for a Pittsburgh semipro sandlot team. Baltimore picked him up there in 1956 with a telephone call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sudden Death | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...call cost us 80?," says Colts' General Manager Don Kellett. "We've come out so far ahead, it looks like a swindle." With a shot at the starting quarterback job part way through the 1956 season. Unitas, now grown to 190 Ibs., compiled the highest pass completion percentage (55.6) of any rookie pro passer in history. In 1957 he led the league in passing yardage (2,550) and touchdown passes (24), was named the league's most valuable player. This season, more than any other man, he has been the spark of the Colts' title drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sudden Death | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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