Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed most unlikely that American farmers, traditionally an independent and antiunion lot, would be eager to do that. Most leaders of established farm organizations oppose the call for a strike, which first came from a group of Colorado ranchers and then was spread through the farm states...
...effects of the drug are so unpredictable that users call it "heaven and hell." Irrational or violent action is typical of chronic users, but even dabblers are not immune to sudden rages. A small dosage of PCP can produce a high that resembles drunkenness and can lead to anything from euphoria and a sense of bouncing to depression and hallucinations. Larger doses can bring convulsions, psychosis, uncontrollable rage, coma and death. "It's a real terror of a drug," says NIDA Director Robert DuPont. "Everything people used to say about marijuana is true about angel dust...
...SASC resolutions call on the Corporation to divest all financial holdings in commercial banks extending credit to South Africa and to support all shareholder resolutions seeking corporate withdrawal from South Africa...
When I was in high school, I was recruited by a few schools to play football and the pressure was tremendous. Coaches call to express seemingly sincere opinions attesting to their appreciation of your astounding football prowess. They make you feel important--as if you were really needed. They take you out to the best restaurants in town and spend a lot of money and time on you to give you the impression you will be treated similarly once you enroll...
...CALL Agnes Varda's latest film, One Sings, The Other Doesn't, feminist art is to insult both feminism and art. Such claims will undoubtedly be made, however, for Varda sets her story of the long-term friendship of two women against the back-drop of the feminist movement of the '60s, presumably illustrating Simone deBeauvoir's famous line, "women are made, not born." But Varda's feminism concerns itself only with those things that have to do specifically with the female body. For her, feminism equals the Pill and easily-had abortions. Varda fails to realize that women...