Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should be made to ensure swift and total military victory. In South Carolina, home state of General William C. Westmoreland, the public attitude, as summarized by Democratic Senator Ernest Rollings, is to "invoke the necessary price, wage and commodity controls, shelve the 'Great Society' for now, and call up the needed units of reserves and National Guard...
Three times a questioner asked: "Why did you call Buddhists Communists...
...Venice Biennale's grand prize with Laurens; in 1953, Laurens won the Sao Paulo Bienal's grand prize. He died of a heart attack a year later at the age of 69, and since then, through half a dozen major exhibitions, critics have waxed ever more enthusiastic, calling him the single most important French sculptor of the century. Plans call for the current monumental show to tour abroad for several years before returning home to rest in its own pavilion at Paris' projected Museum of the Twentieth Century...
Kaiser's achievements were famous. Until World War II he had mainly been a road, bridge and dam builder. But he decided to make ships because the U.S. needed vessels in a hurry. "I'm a builder," Kaiser explained, "and if you call yourself a builder, you ought to be able to build anything." Using prefabricated parts and assembly-line techniques in an industry that had never known either, Kaiser's seven shipyards built 1,490 cargo ships and 50 baby aircraft carriers before the war was over. This amounted to one-third of all U.S. ships...
...yokels with potency pills, crooked cards and his smooth Mason-Dixon line. The drifter is AWOL from Fort Bragg, and hungry. Scott proposes a merger, and the two are soon fast-shuffling their way to fortune, until the locals get wise to their brand of three-card monte and call the cops...