Word: calls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never Rains ... In Bogotá, Colombia, after holding special services to pray for rain, citizens had to call on the army and Red Cross to rescue 50 families made homeless by flood waters...
After that he crossed the corridor and walked, unannounced, into the Senate chamber. He sat down in his old seat until roll call was completed. Then, at the presiding officer's invitation, he rose, and spoke for a few minutes in a quiet voice. He thanked his former colleagues for the luncheon and recalled the events of the day, in 1945, when he was notified that it was "necessary for me to assume a tremendous burden...
...Board of Education. Later in the day he made another quiet pilgrimage to Capitol Hill. He walked into the office of Speaker Sam Rayburn at 5:25. It was the time, almost to the minute, that he had crossed its threshold four years before and had been told to call the White House. This time he was not interrupted, and spent 55 minutes with the "Board of Education" crowd, a group of congressmen and employees who drop in on the Speaker for a quiet drink every day after Congress recesses...
Eight courses are required, generally to be divided half and half between the literature and the history of the concentrator's country or period. The department grants great latitude, however, in what they call "related courses," and as a result History 1--while it lasted--and English 123 both get credit for American History and Lit majors. The range of possible courses makes the department one of the least specialized in the College...
...phone call to the Center made earlier in the evening had been greeted by the announcement that a meeting definitely would take place. Nevertheless the janitor of the building, the sign on the door, and Fr. Feeney all maintained the contrary...