Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ministry is truly a "call from...
...divine call...
...beat him out for the post of majority leader only last January; Ted Kennedy, who fought him on behalf of his brothers; Strom Thurmond, who led segregationists in a protest at the 1948 Democratic Convention after upstart Humphrey, a mere 37 and mayor of Minneapolis, issued a clarion call for civil rights. "The greatest gift of life is friendship," Humphrey declared, "and I have received...
...been the primary issue in the campaign. As a state legislator in the '60s. Howell successfully fought to abolish the poll tax and to establish one-man, one-vote representation. He worked to pass consumer legislation and plug tax loopholes. This year, as a candidate, he is calling for the restoration of the 100 phone call (it costs 200 to use a pay phone in Virginia), collective bargaining for public employees on a local option basis, lower electric bills and, in case of a fiscal crisis, higher state income taxes for the rich...
...subsequent call demanded the abdication of Queen Juliana as ransom for Caransa. The caller also insisted on the release of West German Terrorist Knut Folkerts from a Maastricht prison cell in southern Holland. Police speculated that Caransa's captors might belong to the same gang of anarchists that kidnaped West German Industrialist Hanns-Mar-tin Schleyer in early September. Schley-er's body was found in the trunk of a car in Mulhouse, France, not far from the German border two weeks ago, shortly after West German commandos staged their daring rescue raid on a skyjacked Lufthansa...