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Word: calls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...double blast. A spray of lead pellets the size of peas ripped Vic Reuther's head and right shoulder-his shattered eyeglasses and his dental bridge flew to the rug ten feet away. Slowly he rose, clutched his bleeding face, then fell to the floor crying, "Call an ambulance." Sophie Reuther called police, then rushed screaming into the dark, empty street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shot in the Dark | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...paid to have my brother shot and for the same reason. They could be diehard elements among employers, or they could be Communist or fascist agents." Michigan Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson guessed that it was the Communists (the party hotly denied it), got the U.S. Senate to call for FBI investigation. Others guessed that it might be the work of some crackpot, either anti-union or a U.A.W. man soured by bitter fights within the union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shot in the Dark | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Well, next time you get an invitation from a group you don't know about, you better call us first...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: FBI's Activities Spread Fear at Yale | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...scare tactics, employed not by a regular agent, but by one of the FBI's many liaison men. Provost Furniss told the story to the CRIMSON: Late one night recently, an eminently respectable Yale faculty member, a one-time refugee from Nazi Germany, received a mysterious telephone call...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: FBI's Activities Spread Fear at Yale | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...right, so I call a girl at Radcliffe. The movie at the UT stinks. You go to town and already it's a big production. All I want to do is throw a little talk around--casual talk. And private. Private. Why the hell can't I? It's my room isn't it? I pay rent on the hole. It would be pretty nice to find a girl who could listen to Brunis records with you. All right--so that's not all. So you smooch a little. They do it in the best repressed families. Or hasn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

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