Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While police were pushing the crowd against the hotel front, another body of police in a side street, alerted by a radio call of "policeman in trouble," charged into the flank of the already jam-packed crowd, ultimately forcing a score of people through a plate-glass window...
...self-satisfied pride in the strength of their currency. But as soon as the leaders of Bonn's Grand Coalition sensed how poorly the German gloating was being received elsewhere in Europe, they moved without hesitation to curb the enthusiasm of their countrymen. In a radio interview, Willy Brandt gave the Germans a lesson in prudent international etiquette. Said the Foreign Minister: "Arrogance toward our neighbors and partners would be stupid and dangerous." Chancellor Kiesinger warned his people about developing pretensions of grandeur. "In the journalistic utterances abroad during the past days, there were voices that spoke...
...because everyone else on his corridor had and he had been subject to some "pressure" and, besides, he had Law Boards on Saturday and he didn't like being dislocated before a test like that, and he hoped I didn't mind but he was going to take his radio and alarm clock with him when he left. He also let me know he intended to stay in his room as long as he legally could (from 8 a.m. to midnight). He did, and I was forced to tiptoe around him while he studied and to get dressed...
...left on Wednesday morning. I found the bathroom, which had been cleared out for us. There was a huge female sex sign on the door with the words "Up Against the Wall Mother Yale" scrawled beneath it. I said goodnight to my student host (who left with his radio and alarm clock) and fell, exhausted, into...
There were reasons for the voters' stinginess. Steel plants in the heavily industrialized city were operating below normal levels, Roman Catholics were hard-pressed to support their own parochial schools, elderly residents with no stake in education were feeling the pressures of inflation. Surprisingly, two radio talk shows on which citizens aired their grievances hurt the school cause. "All the ding-a-lings called in to spread their ignorance and misinformation-and people believe all those nuts because they hear it on the radio," complained one school official. Some callers, for example, falsely claimed that the school board...