Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even the Janata leaders predicted a landslide by their party, but many realized in the closing days of the campaign that Congress was in trouble. Opposition rallies were jammed, while Prime Minister's audiences were embarrassingly apathetic. Three times during a rally at Varanasi, the chairman called for a cheer for Indira, and three times the crowd shouted no. In Lucknow, women in the front of the audience started to leave ten minutes after Mrs. Gandhi began to speak. Tired of news broadcasts on the government-run All India Radio, which ignored the opposition's campaign and burbled...
...free to live in her government residence "as long as she wished" (which was only fair, since she had never taken away his official home even during the months he was in prison). In another extraordinary gesture by the victors, J.P. Narayan-despite his poor health-paid a courtesy call on Mrs. Gandhi. The two old adversaries chatted amiably for a half-hour...
...trouble. When one citizen of the city complained to D.K. Barooah, president of the Congress Party, Barooah told him to talk to the "high command." As instructed, the citizen of Muzaffarnagar telephoned Mrs. Gandhi's office and reached her private secretary, R.K. Dhawan. Informed that the call was coming from Muzaffarnagar, he hung...
...person as West Germans, who have roughly comparable living standards), reports and endless position papers from his staff. The first thing he did when he moved in was to recruit a dozen eager, freewheeling young people, who are unintimidated by their awesome job or their boss, whom they call simply Jim. Schlesinger hired them in his typically low-key way. Often it was just a telephone call: "How quickly can you get over here?" George Hall made it so quickly that he has not yet had time to turn in his ID card and parking permit at the Pentagon, where...