Word: callings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LITTLE old man answered our next ring, opening the door first with the chain still on, wondering who would have legitimate reason to call upon him at 2 p.m. on Saturday afternoon...
Crimson quarterback Joe Roda and the second string came in later to beef up team statistics against Princeton's second defense, and the team moved well enough to score two touchdowns, though one came after a questionable interference call on safety Jeff Davis...
During the redistributions, counters call out the name of the candidate to whom each ballot will go before they place it in that candidate's pile. "VUH-LEW-CHI," the cry comes. The pencils of a dozen candidates and watchers crowded around make another mark next to Al's name on the sheets where they're tallying the redistribution. "We're getting plenty but maybe you could use some more votes. We'd slip a few extra ones in for you-but there's witnesses," A Vellucci backer jokes with another candidate...
...fares over the North Atlantic are so jumbled that Italian airline officials sardonically refer to them as "spaghetti," the Germans call them "sauerkraut" and the Americans say that they are "for the birds." Yet, after three weeks of wrangling in the usually placid Swiss town of Lausanne, representatives of the 22 scheduled lines that fly the Atlantic were unable to agree on new, uniform rates. The result last week was that the Atlantic lines began operating under an anarchy called the "open rate." That means that until they agree on rates they can charge almost any fare that they want...
...terms of the formula, originally proposed by the Ministry of Agriculture, were divulged last week: Perrier and Bel will each own at least 25.5% of Genvrain, and the Crédit Agricole will own 15%, with all sharing operating control. It is an arrangement that the French might call a ménage à quatre...