Word: callings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...finally seems to have developed and become chronic. And so every slight cold has a sort of multiplied effect on me." That is why, he said ironically, "I seek the warm weather and sun." He added that he had the flu before he went to California in October. "I called it flu. Whether the doctor did or not,*I don't think I ever asked him. Anytime I feel as badly as I did that time, I call...
...Long live martial law!" cried the peasants at village after village on the whistle-stop tour. Tall, strapping General Mohammed Ayub Khan, 52, dressed in open shirt and slacks, would lean from the doorway of his private railroad car and call: "How are you? How are the crops?" The village leader answered: "We are in perfect peace through your kindness." Others crowded round to beg Ayub to save them from a distasteful return of "democracy and politicians...
...particular events which preceded the woman's suspicion, the statement says were: (1) the woman's first call to the Commission requesting a notary. (2) two hours later, the arrival of a man who said he was the notary sent by the Commission office. (3) his departure without sealing the outer envelope. (4) a message from the Commission saying a notary would be sent. "This made me suspicious," the statement says...
Continuing, the statement lists (5) a return call by the woman to the Commission office thanking them for sending a notary; at the same time, a Commission employee said the office had not sent any notary. Also, the statement says the man who came to the apartment offered to mail the ballot himself...
These volumes, in general, are studies by individual scholars within a certain area of Soviet life. Although the Center believes in what the socal relation people call interdisciplinary "cross-fertilization," it does not seek to accomplish this through collaboration or group projects. As Kluckhohn observed in the foreword to Joseph S. Berliner's Factory and Manager in the USSR (No. 27 in the Russian Research Center series), the Center thinks that such an inter-disciplinary approach is most successful when it takes place "under one skull...