Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your report about Nicaragua's situation [Sept. 11] describes the heroic fight of an entire people on their way to freedom. Call them Sandinistas or rebels, all of them are heroes and are working to make their country free, not a family farm any more...
There is an ever present belief in the Western world that Islam is contrary to modernization and progress. The current development and modernization in many oil-rich Islamic nations prove that progress and Islam can go together. If you call legalization of gambling, striptease, pornography and homosexual rights social reforms and modernization, I would say no to such progress...
...very noble of the 15 former greats to call for tennis to clean up its act, but I'm sure they would like to have said that it's too bad the big money came after they were all over the hill...
...employee of WBZ (Channel 4) television, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday, "I got a call at about 11 a.m. from some guy who sounded like he was not entirely serious. The caller said that a number of Viet Nam veterans were angry about the way they were treated at the Coop. He said that a bomb was going to go off at the Coop, but he could not decide when...
Union members had previously authorized their leaders to call a strike, although that threat never materialized...