Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peoples in history," observed Economist J. Edward Meeker in 1930, "the American people can least afford to condemn speculation. The discovery of America was made possible by a loan based on the collateral of Queen Isabella's crown jewels, and at interest beside which even call-loan interest rates look coy and bashful. Financing an unknown foreigner to sail the unknown deep in three cockleshell boats in the hope of discovering a mythical Zipangu cannot, by the widest exercise of language, be called 'a conservative investment...
...Call for Peace. The new leaders are the mayors and politicians who remained in their posts when the Israelis marched in. Where Shukairy had been fanatic, they are pragmatic. Where Shukairy had depended on other Arab states to "drive the Israelis into the sea," the new men call for a purely "Palestine initiative"-the essence of which is to make an acceptable peace with Israel. "The Israelis have all along offered the Arab states peace," says Aziz Shihadeh, 50, a lawyer in the occupied town of Ramallah. "They have been offering it to the wrong people. We, the Palestinians...
...Call for Help. Guerrero averages more than 200 murders a month, 60 in Acapulco alone. Last November, when a new bride refused to dance with one of her wedding guests in Tunas, guns came out and eleven persons were killed. A few weeks later, in a cemetery near Acapulco, another murder victim was no sooner in the ground than guns started blazing among the mourners; two people were killed. Six more died recently after a shoot-out over a land dispute. The incident that finally brought the arms crackdown came last month when two rival union factions shot...
...professional all-news pioneer WINS last month. The hard news was no problem-CBS has been reporting it for years. But the filler-sports for women only, psychologists answering letters from worried mothers, non-interviews with non-persons-showed signs of strain. The station developed a serious case of call letteritis ("And now, CBS news presents the CBS weather report"), mentioning CBS or WCBS about 35 times an hour. It also suffers from a lingering trace of the oldtime-radio multiple-byline syndrome: "We now take you to the White House for a report from Dan Rather," "This...
...Reddin. "I call it the blue curtain." But now, with Quinn Tamm poking at the curtain, constructive self-criticism is bringing the police into closer touch with the public...