Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caswell also set up two telephone hot lines for New Yorkers worried about having Legionnaires' disease to call in and discuss their symptoms. Almost 16,000 hot-line calls were logged in eight days. Health department technicians in a mobile van took more than 300 blood specimens from people who thought they might be infected. One surprising result: many of those working in the garment district were found to have antibodies against the bacterium now known to cause the disease, indicating that they had been infected-without suffering any apparent symptoms-some time ago. This, in turn, suggested that...
...They seem to be collateral relatives of the Snopeses. If the bride's sister has not been made pregnant by the groom, then the deed was done by one of his 20-odd barracks mates from the military academy. Her uncle is a fundamentalist minister who got the call from God speaking through a Holiday Inn TV set. Her mother spends much of the wedding day arranging to meet an absurdly romantic uncle of the groom's in a motel across from a Dairy Queen in Tallahassee...
...years ago, the late John Steinbeck's dull but competent retelling of Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's 15th century compilation, was published. Now Thomas Berger offers still another rex redux, in the form of "a legendary novel." He might have done better to call it a haphazard parody...
John Pagliaro wasn't around. Neither was Bob Rizzo. But the hired assassins they call the Yale defense were there in awesome numbers, holding Brown three times on downs inside its own 20, as well as forcing three key turnovers...
Nobody, today, can accurately call the Brooke-Tsongas race. Nor can anyone yet predict the Hatch-King race. Hatch-King will probably boil down to a clear liberal-versus-conservative battle, unless Tip O'Neill calls in his favors throughout the Democratic party to try to save Ed King, and therefore his son Tom. But even if Hatch-King is clearly a liberal-conservative choice, the races so far have been so confused by other factors that nobody has a clear idea of where the balance of power lies...