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Word: call (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state that 52% of them would rather live in all-black barracks. Well what do you think would happen if I stated that I would rather live in all-white barracks when they started to move a Negro into my barracks I would be called a racist, a bigot, and many other things, but all you call the Negro is a brother who wants to be with his brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 3, 1969 | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...Baroness Alix de Rothschild in the Paris phone directory, Construction Worker Josef Stadnik proceeded to her duplex apartment, where he confronted her son, David, 27, with a pistol. Demanding 2,000,000 francs ($360,000) to spare David's life, the nervous gunman forced the young heir to call his father, Rothschild Bank President Baron Guy de Rothschild, for the ransom. No sooner said than done. "In a situation like mine, you know, with all the contacts you have, it is not hard to find a big sum," David later explained. When Baron Guy arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 3, 1969 | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...with a tough accent curiously compounded of New Orleans (where he lives) and Brooklyn (where he has never lived). "I started out as a boy soprano," he says. "I could outSills Beverly Sills, but then I turned into a bass. I dunno what kind of voice I got now. Call it a dramatic bass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Sermons and Satan | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

This midnight ride of American Motors engineers was a regular test in their effort to develop doors that slam with what automen call a solid "thunk." One result showed up last week as American Motors introduced the Hornet, its new small car, with an advertisement that urged: "Open a door and listen for the reassuring thunk you get when you close it." In auto showrooms, the sound of a car door slamming touches some responsive chord in the frazzled psyche of the American buyer-and all the automakers know it. "There is very little to go on when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Thunking Man's Car | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...Revolutionary Offensive" to push Caba towards the final stage of the socialist transformation, a fully communist society. Though the results of the plunge are not yet in, Castro's effort faces immense obstacles. If Cuba's great leap does fail, its setback, and China's in similar attempts, will call into question some tenets of the Marxist-Leninist theory which Castro claims is pointing...

Author: By David Blumenthai., | Title: Brass Tacks Cuban Leap | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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