Word: calls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author's ear for sound ("Battersea's four gaunt towers in their dreams fumed") and atmosphere, but Morgan's poem, especially his second "Tune" shows the greater sensitivity. John C. Fiske makes the standard reply to William Carlos Williams in his "Lines" to that poet ("Let us not call traditional forms a crime/Lest innovation be the thief of rime") but his poetic rebuttal is too contrived to be successful...
...rich Po Valley and on the sunlit Roman plains, a strike call went out last week to 400,000 braccianti (landless farmhands). They wanted a nationwide contract, with better pay and job security, between their unions and the landowners. Months of collective bargaining had ended in deadlock-and Italy's most disturbing disorders since the Red riots of early...
...still on last week, and they have an ample stock of food and four bathtubs 'filled with water before the regular supply failed (plus the lily pond when these give out). During the long evenings Mr. and Mrs. Hawkings play Russian bank for pennies and halfpennies. "We call ourselves the last outpost of Empire out here," Mrs. Hawkings said. "I don't think we British ought to quit anywhere. It's a matter of prestige...
...Buenos Aires' Boston Bank building, the telephone jangled. "Never mind the protocol," boomed the voice of Juan Perón, "come on over." After three months in Washington, big, breezy U.S. Ambassador James Bruce was back at his post. In answer to Perón's call, he put other business aside, walked the four blocks to the Casa Rosada for a hearty abrazo and a long talk with Argentina's President. In the next two days, he saw most of the country's cabinet ministers, called twice on Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia...
...days later the student council voted, 15 to 8, "that student council call upon all students, regardless of political leanings, to attend a rally--if necessary absenting themselves from classes...