Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radiotelephone: "There's a new point of law," he said insistently. "There's no time to explain. Can you stop it?" Knight picked up his other phone, spoke to his secretary, Joseph Babich. Knight overheard Babich's conversation as the secretary called the warden on a direct line...
...London medical schools, had news of the moral and physical health of many top Rumanians. Porcine Ana Pauker, onetime Communist boss, had a secret cancer operation at a Vienna hospital in 1951. Now 63, Ana Pauker ("who frequented all the right beds in her time and once had a direct phone line to Stalin") still lives in her luxurious apartment in Bucharest, comforted by large doses of tranquilizers (evipan) and morphine (regular 1½-grain doses administered by state doctors). Ana Pauker lost power in Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign, but, unlike 250 Zionist leaders still in Rumanian jails...
Charles Bailey himself launched the most direct assault imaginable on coronary disease-reaming out the diseased part of the arteries (TIME, Nov. 26). The first two patients, on whom Bailey based his preliminary announcement, have both done well. One, a man of 52, has gone back to work. But Bailey was not content with the instrument that he used (it had a rigid steel shank), so he soon designed another. The result is a piece of piano wire with a loop handle at one end, a tiny ball at the other, and 1½ in. from the tip, a thicker...
Slessor stressed that direct power should only be applied after all economic and moral pressures have failed to accompish a given policy...
...YORK, March 17--Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir today accused the United Nations of direct responsibility for the presence of Egyptian military personnel in the disputed Gaza Strip. The situation, she said, "spells danger to the security of Israel...