Word: call
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...only the politicians who improve the world so gradually that nobody can see the improvement. The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into...
...time: 1972. The event: the World Series. The pitcher fires a curve ball that just clips the inside corner of the plate. "Steee-rike!" the umpire cries. The batter spins around, glares at the umpire and roars with measured fury: "That, madame, was a reprehensible call...
...Bernice Gera has anything to say about it. A Queens, N.Y., housewife and a graduate of the Florida Baseball School for umpires, Mrs. Gera, 38, recently won a contract to serve as an umpire in the Class A New York-Pennsylvania League. She was scheduled to call her first game two weeks ago in Auburn, N.Y. Before she could don face mask and protector, though, she received a terse telegram from Phillip Piton, president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, informing her that her contract "has been disapproved and is invalid." Sighed Mrs. Gera: "I guess I just...
Personally, most Greek shipping men scorn the sybaritic life, preferring to live in.a quietly sumptuous style. They shuttle among offices and residences in several countries, unnoticed except by their captains (whom they instruct to call them at any hour of the night if a problem arises). Lemos, for example, maintains his principal office in London, owns a penthouse in Athens and a home in Rye, N.Y., and has permanent suites at Claridge's in London and the Lausanne Palace. Most of the shipowners return to their home islands for summer vacations. When all the clans gather on Inoussai...
Archer's professional progress is also impeded by his, and his creator's, strivings to bring home to each and every hapless character the wrong turnings in his past. One longs for Chandler's jaunty, corpse-chasing Philip Marlowe: "Murder-a-Day Marlowe, they call him. They have the meat wagon following him around to follow up the business he finds...