Word: calls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are many items which the Democrats have added," Morse persisted. "I call the attention of the Senator ... to the calliope which will tag-end the circus." Morse had the last word, but Government employees got their four-day weekend...
...page report which ECA is readying for Congress will be a U.S. product. But ECA's Assistant Deputy Administrator Richard Bissell wants the benefit of Marjolin's experience while the report is reaching final form. Marjolin's admiring colleagues sometimes call him The Brain...
...would be idle to pin labels on these people, call them "democrats." They are no more than families in flight. Doctors and lawyers, Zeiss technicians and garage mechanics, slave miners and girls tired of being raped in Soviet mess halls-they have nothing in common but their flight from evil and terror, from the lie and the lash. Down their dark, narrow corridor they come, heading, half drunk with fear, toward a single, small light...
From Threats to Rewards. "This petition will soon be typed," explained an official. "You will sign it first. On Friday evening a car with two of our Communist friends will call for you. All priests will be home then, and you will persuade them to sign . . . You'd better not hedge," he added, pointing to the chief of political police. Then, shifting his line from one of threats to rewards, the Red official promised: "If you cooperate, you'll be made head of the Church in Hungary...
...struggle with the world's dramatic future-the future always tending to shake the ground of the present on which I had my feet." Far into the night, Ortega still struggles with a "passion which is the most vivid I find in my heart. I would call it intellectual love...