Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ferrante said that some people call her a "space cadet" because she "doesn't get hyper over being late to practice." However, her collection of empty pen cartridges--begun because someone told her that she needed a hobby--suggests that label may have some credence...
...were jamming his telephones in their haste to sell. "More dramatic than anything I've seen since the assassination of President Kennedy. The institutions and banks are selling, but they aren't as dramatic as the public. The public always seems to overreact. They're just calling up and saying, 'Sell my stuff! Get out of my position!'" His experience was not unique. At brokerage houses around the city, investors were trying to cut their losses. By 11:30, only 1½ hrs. after trading began, the Dow Jones average was off by 13 points...
Typically, Fallaci pulled no punches and started out with what she calls my toughest questions." One of them was directed to the charge that people were now calling Khomeini a dictator. "It hurts me," the Ayatullah answered, "because it is unjust and inhuman to call me a dictator. On the other hand, I couldn't care less, because I know that wickedness is a part of human nature, and such wickedness comes from our enemies. Considering the road that we have chosen, a road that is opposed to the superpowers it is normal that the servants of foreign interests...
...abducted by the Soviet secret service and forced to leave the country against his will." If he has been repatriated by force, the canoeist faces a charge of treason, for which the penalty could be death. Last week the West German embassy in Moscow received an anonymous phone call from a Russian who claimed that Cesiunas was being held in a Soviet prison hospital, with severe head injuries, including a cracked skull...
...large presidential desk was being moved from a storeroom; the original desk, still in the White House, was given by Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878. On the library's desk will rest the coconut shell on which Naval Lieutenant Kennedy carved a call for help after PT-109 was sunk by a Japanese destroyer off Guadalcanal in 1943. Under the supervision of former Kennedy Aide and Curator David Powers, the library has amassed a collection that includes 13,000 objects of Kennedy memorabilia (including an alligator desk set given Kennedy by General Charles de Gaulle...