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Word: callings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are some bright nuggets here and there. William Daniels has a hilarious deadpan scene where, as G. Gordon Liddy, he outlines his outrageous schemes to trap '72 Democratic Convention delegates with call girls. As the President, Rip Torn does a gleefully vicious Nixon impersonation, whether he is re-enacting private Oval Office conversations (with bleeps in place of expletives) or declaring to the world that he is "not a crook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: John and Mo Fight Watergate | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...call to the bullpen came at West Point Saturday. Roberts would play seventh singles, an exhibition match. The Fates were not willing, though, as rain cancelled all but the top six singles matches (which Harvard won easily...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: An Unlikely Hero | 5/15/1979 | See Source »

...about a foot out," Chaikovsky said, only half-kidding, "but Kirsch and Horne (a pair of exuberant Harvard players) were right there, and they started going berserk before the call was made. Bill and I turned around and walked back, so Cornell couldn't really call...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: An Unlikely Hero | 5/15/1979 | See Source »

...case, the company has the last laugh. One of its executives was suffering from a bad case of flu when he met with COWPS officials in Washington after the President's phone call. Some time later COWPS Director Barry Bosworth and several other agency officials were put to bed with what their colleagues are calling "Sears' revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Slash at Sears | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

This is his second call. He had fallen in love with Sally the summer before. Now he has come back to woo and win her. Sally is skittish. She has felt woefully unworthy ever since a local merchant prince jilted her because a childhood illness rendered her infertile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Late Bloomers | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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