Word: callings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harold Wilson paid a four-day call on Nigeria last week, his R.A.F. VC-10 borne from London to Lagos on symbolic currents of hope that the British Prime Minister can somehow nudge one of the world's wars toward a negotiating table...
...petition had argued that the court was, in effect, granting legal immunity to anyone who was bugged in the course of espionage or counterespionage investigations. Indeed, he added, the decision might even "point the way for the well-advised person to obtain such immunity by simply making a telephone call" to, for instance, the Russian embassy...
...Covering the Boer War in 1900, Winston Churchill reported the death of a Major Childe: "Old and gray as he was, the call to arms had drawn him from home, and wife, and comfort as it is drawing many of all ages and fortunes now. And so he was killed in his first fight against the Boers. He had a queer presentiment of impending fate, for he had spoken a good deal to us of the chances of death, and had even selected his own epitaph, so that on the little wooden cross which stands at the foot of Bastion...
...financed by the Fiat auto company's Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, two dozen scholars from eight countries set out to explore "The Culture of Unbelief." In their collective view, the world's supposed infidels are more sinned against than sinning-and sometimes more religious than those who call them unbelievers...
...perfect butler, which he played in 1937's Tapper and only four other films. In fact, he was so much at home in such roles (the tax-tortured tailor in The Boys from Syracuse, 1940; the lacy interior decorator in Jackpot, 1950) that the late John Barrymore could call him "a worthy adversary...