Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industrialized nation was to open vast new acreage in Siberia and offer Russia's collective farmers gaudy price incentives to boost their output. Having messed up Soviet agriculture earlier, said Khrushchev, the "reactionaries" of the anti-party group fought his every reform. "It hurts my tongue to call them comrades.'' he growled...
Next day, while the newspapers gloated about Rountree's "fleeing from the crowds which came to receive him," the State Department envoy was scheduled to call on Iraq's head of state, General Kassem. The Iraqis sent an army station wagon and a jeepload of troops and-semi-secretly and with no flag flying-the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State was smuggled off to call on the Prime Minister of a supposedly friendly country. It was the only time he left the embassy in his two days in Iraq...
...earliest solo at 3½, when she visited a Sunday-school class one Easter and laced into White Lilies with such gusto that the rest of the kids quit to let her go it alone. To everyone in town, Chiby seemed like just another American kid; people began to call her "Pat." At a "couple of county things" she stopped the show with her unbridled rendition of I Am an American...
...football and basketball coaches, announced new limits: height up from 6 ft. 4 in. to 6 ft. 6 in. (same as West Point and Annapolis); weight, in proportion to height, up from 216 to 239 lbs. (same as West Point; 4 Ibs. heavier than Annapolis maximum). New vision requirements call for 20/50 sight in each eye, correctible to 20/20, permit some depth-and color-perception defects...
...From Ensign Teruo Yamaguchi to his father: "As death approaches, my only regret is that I have never been able to do anything good for you in my life . . . My greatest regret is [my] failure to call you chichiue [revered father]. I regret not having given any demonstration of the true respect which I have always had for you. During my final plunge, though you will not hear it, you may be sure that I will be saying chichiue to you and thinking of all you have done...