Word: call
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another Jelke, Brody's Uncle Mickey, enjoyed brief fame in 1955, when he was convicted of running an expensive call-girl service on Manhattan's East Side...
...revisionists have a particular quarrel with the dominant scholarly voice of the recent past: what they call "consensus history," as exemplified by such diverse writers as Richard Hofstadter of Columbia, Daniel Boorstin of the Smithsonian Institution, Henry Nash Smith of the University of California at Berkeley, and George Kennan of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The consensus historians, who came to maturity during World War II and the early years of the cold war, exhibit an understandable hostility to totalitarianism in their writings. By contrast, they emphasize the spirit of compromise and accommodation in American history. Compared with...
WHEN British Prime Minister Harold Wilson pays his first call on President Nixon this week, a familiar phrase may very well come up during their meeting-the "special relationship." Even today, the phrase conjures up deep and enduring ties between the two countries that may be helpful. Yet it does not come even close to carrying the significance that it did in 1946 when the phrase was coined by Winston Churchill...
...judged to be about the same." Despite a few serious exceptions, U.S. and British policies since World War II have been reasonably compatible. In recent months, for example, the Anglo-American position has been fairly close on Nigeria, the Middle East, and the response to Moscow's call for a European security conference...
...possible confusion between 1's and 7's, O's and O's. Dialing a wrong telephone name may also bring on an operator asking: "What number did you dial, please?" Instead of trying to explain, it is usually far easier to hang up and call again. None of this deters a dedicated telephoneticist like Los Angeles Mathematician Angela Dunn, who has created words out of most of her friends' numbers. A pharmacist and his wife for whom she invented GRADLUP were so pleased that they now regularly serve a drink they have christened...