Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into a branch of the Tekoku Bank, Japan's largest, last week walked a middle-aged man of distinction wearing the arm band of a Tokyo municipal official. He said he was a city health inspector. Would the manager please summon all his employees for a dose of special anti-dysentery medicine...
While floor managers and sales personnel hastened to the front of the store attracted by the smoke bombs, and to summon fire trucks, two bandits methodically pinned Mr. Dupre against the wall, and covered the cashiers, Miss Estelle Sutherland of Allston, and Miss Georgie Treblis of Watertown...
Good Will Lost? Cried New York's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "It is easier to summon us to a holy war against Russia than to solve the problems involved in establishing economic justice and world order. ... An ideology cannot be suffocated by poison gas nor demolished by atom bombs. Ideas are conquered by better ideas whose truth has been revealed in practices that enrich personality...
Cowards & Coyotes. Terrified, the boy confessed that he rang the bell as a signal for his gang's nightly "operations"-burglary, smashing windows, bombing. Father Swartsfager ordered him to summon his gang. When the boys showed up, one by one, he started preaching. He called them cowards and coyotes, threatened to pin their ears back. The boys listened aghast. Soon, they were confessing their crimes. They led him to their hideout, turned over lead pipes, brass knuckles, revolvers. On the spot, Father Swartsfager organized the Gremlin Club ("I'll teach you to be real tough guys-mentally, physically...
...must go to an office under the bookstacks," he said. "There they are qualified to issue a temporary pass. You would never find it. It is far too complicated. I will summon an escort...