Word: callers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caller will be Bill Dunkle, who is bringing with him his Promenaders. These people will run through several authentic square dances. The high point of the entertainment will be the first performance this season of the Krokedilloes, College singing outfit, who will later lead everybody in group singing. A gals gift showering balloon dance will really top off the evening, with many valuable souvenirs awaiting lucky dancers...
...night last April, a Mountie agent called at the parish house and told the curate that he had come for some "H" (heroin). Taillefer's superior, the pastor, was ill at the time and the curate had the run of the rectory. He told his caller that he could supply up to 800 ounces of heroin at $250 an ounce...
...long, the phone rang in the Pentagon office of Navy Captain John G. Crommelin Jr. To each caller, blond, 46-year-old Captain Crommelin replied abruptly: "This telephone is tapped-you know that." The callers were fellow officers proffering him support. For John Crommelin had defiantly voiced what many of them thought, but had not dared to say: that the Navy's aviation was being destroyed under the guise of unification...
...other young fellows had forged a batch of ballots and stuffed them into ballot boxes before the polls opened. The bogus ballots had been discovered (253 marked for President Truman and Democratic Senator Virgil Chapman, one for Chapman's Republican opponent). The judge's caller was worried...
...most communities, to buy only rundown houses in rundown districts. Four years ago, as a broker in a big Los Angeles real-estate firm, she took a call from another broker asking about a new house. Asked Mrs. Grant: "Is your client a Caucasian?" The answer from the caller, a Negro, was cold and angry: "No she's not, and neither...