Word: calling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Adlai Stevenson, and to promise leadership toward "the new and better world beyond the New Frontier." On across the city and into New Jersey he carried his own basic, oft-repeated theme: the decline of the U.S. at home and abroad. In heavily Democratic centers he added a clarion call for party loyalty...
...case had been turned over to civilian authorities on the theory that punishment would be stiffer than that handed out by a Navy court martial. Many who had served with The Big E were waiting anxiously for his day in court. Meanwhile, the irreverent U.S. Navy began to call Erdmann Beach by a new name: Smuggler's Cove...
Targets of Opportunity. In capitals throughout the West, Soviet diplomats and sympathizers carefully dropped hints that Nikita planned all sorts of diplomatic spectaculars ranging from a call for "complete, universal and immediate" disarmament down to a proposal for the elimination of all means of delivering nuclear warheads-an idea that is espoused by France's Charles de Gaulle and which, therefore, Khrushchev might invoke in hopes of dividing the Western allies...
...wrote: "I suppose you think I am . . . interested in art. That is a mistake. I care nothing for art." If a visitor knocked at his door, he would yell, "Mr. Homer is not at home." Gradually, Homer became so isolated that he had to hire a local man to call on him each morning just to make sure he was still alive...
Decision at Trafalgar, by Dudley Pope. Memorably above the call of routine historical duty, this is a definitive chronicle of the greatest battle of the age of sail and its ageless hero, Lord Nelson...