Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nebraska contest two weeks earlier, and Nebraska is solidly Nixon country. Though Rockefeller preached party unity at every turn, he admitted only reluctantly that he would support Nixon if he were "the Republican nominee." Rocky still maintained that he was willing to "answer any tree and meaningful call," should the party demand his candidacy, and some wishful-thinking Republicans argued that Nixon might yet falter, giving Rocky a chance in Miami Beach next August. Only a true believer would...
More and more textbook writers are honoring Negroes along with whites. Still more needs to be done, said New York's Representative James Scheuer, whose hearings are designed to call attention to his proposal for a federal Commission on Negro History and Culture. As it is, reported Author James Baldwin, the Negro child has a feeling "of no past, not really a present and certainly no future. It is a great national waste...
...independent fedayeen organizations, most of them less interested in playing Arab politics (as was the P.L.A.) than in fielding effective guerrillas. The largest, and to all appearances the most dynamic, of them all is Asita (thunderstorm), the paramilitary arm of a broader political group named El Fatah, whose commandos call themselves storm troopers...
Though the Plant Lady, as her fans call her, went on the air only seven months ago, she is already pulling 500 letters a week filled with questions as well as the remains of stricken leaves, buds and twigs. She doesn't mind picking through the "deb-ree"; as an archaeologist trained at the London School of Economics, she has been digging around in the ground for one purpose or another most of her adult life. The wife of Hugh Mencken, curator of European archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum, she lives in a rambling clapboard house...
...writes White. "He cut the relief rolls from 320,000 to 150,000 citizens. . . He tackled credit and restored some commercial stability to the system ravaged by his own wars; put through tax reforms; wrestled with the problems of labor and wages; and began to examine what we today call the problems of urban environment. . . He tried to reorganize the crowded city traffic that choked the streets of Rome, and, of course, like all men dealing with urban traffic ever since, failed...