Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor parish priest," as he likes to call himself, was already gloating over his anticipated new riches. "I'll be the first clergyman in the history of the world to get a gold platter," exulted ostracized Congressman Adam Clayton Powell last week on the Bahamian isle of North Bimini. That hardly amounted to the "fantastic" disclosure promised for his first press conference since Congress last month decided not to seat him pending an investigation of his free-wheeling way with public funds. But then Powell never before had made a hot-selling record. According to Jubilee Records...
...headed by Brooklyn Congressman Emanuel Celler, declaring that there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that bars him from his seat. The nine-man Celler committee announced that it will begin holding formal hearings this week. Celler said he had not yet made up his mind on whether to call Powell to testify, although he thought it "most likely...
...peasant armies and pitched battles, of death in high places and kangaroo courts, of confusion and chaos from one end of mainland China to the other. But one thing is increasingly clear: the situation in China is deteriorating rapidly, as evidenced last week by Mao's desperate call on the army for help...
...keeping the People's Liberation Army out of the struggle, Mao's decision to employ it was an admission that he no longer has enough influence across China to be sure of winning by political means. The Liberation Army Daily's announcement in response to a call from Mao said as much: "Even though they [the Maoists] may be just a minority temporarily, we must support them without the slightest hesitation." The Maoists, in fact, have been a minority all along in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, whose excesses are opposed by a majority of Communist Party...
...unlovely Stalinist regime Jlbricht has done his best to blunt the Bonn drive. His ambassadors in east-bloc capitals have been talking themselves hoarse about the dangers of West German revanche and the evils of deserting Communism's united front Ulbricht even appealed to the Soviet Union to call a halt to the trafficking with Bonn. It did no good. The Russians feared that their orders might not be heeded and might even alienate some countries that they are trying to enlist for support in their quarrel with Red China. Despite their usual cries about German militarism, they...