Word: calling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Ethiopian) troops to Katanga. Lumumba accused Dag of sending in only units from Ireland (there were no Irish troops in Katanga) and from Sweden, "a country known to have special affinities with the Belgian royal family." Hammarskjold coldly replied that he had decided to return to New York to call another Security Council meeting. Lumumba there upon demanded that Hammarskjold postpone his departure for 24 hours so that the protesting Congolese delegation could hitch a ride on his plane. Dag Hammarskjold decided to leave the Congo immediately...
...response to Phoumi's call a flurry of local army commanders hurried in to consult. Beating time to reedy pipe music as he presided over a table laden with Scotch whisky and French wines, Phoumi assured a reporter that his troops were racing the Pathet Lao Communists through the roadless jungle to the capital, added earnestly: "If you let the Pathet Lao into the government, they will organize and work hard and sooner or later they will control the whole country...
Training for Tomorrow. The setting alone is enough to provide an 18th century atmosphere. But Director Hillestrom goes further. Pages call the audience to attention with handbells, and all performers dress in genuine period costumes. Leading Drottningholm's orchestra with crackling vitality in last week's II Maestro and II Barbiere, Conductor Bertil Bokstedt was resplendent in the silk robe of an 18th century courtier. Onstage, Sweden's gifted young singers-Soprano Karin Langebo, Tenors Carl-Axel Hallgren, Arne Ohlson, Uno Stjernquist, and Basso Arne Tyren-wore the periwigs fashionable at the time of Queen Lovisa...
...line. He cheers his mates up with a few jokes during a lull in the battle, then remarks that, seriously, things look very dark. Turning to one of his buddies, he says with a catch in his voice, "If I don't get out of this, would you call up my wife-and my girl...
...Holbein the Elder did a memorable drawing of the somber-looking junior Hans, aged 14. A few years later young Hans and his brother Ambrosius were seeking their fortunes as artists in Basel, which, largely because of the presence of the great Dutch scholar Erasmus, was soon to call itself "the city of humanists." Once the young Hans so flattered Erasmus with a portrait sketch that the aging celibate declared if he really looked that good, he would go right out and marry. Ambrosius is believed to have died around the age of 25, leaving Hans Holbein the Younger...