Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King reached with his foot for a pushbutton hidden under the carpet to summon the soldiers. Before he could reach it, however, they tramped...
Planemaker "Roy" Grumman (rhymes with summon) modestly insists that the high scores are due to superb Navy tactics and skill. The Navy thinks differently. Navy brass hats long ago ran out of glowing phrases (say they: "Roy Grumman is the hottest thing in aviation today") and E flags for Grumman. Last week, as a new token of their esteem, the Navy was reportedly seeking permission to give him a medal, the Meritorious Civilian Service award, something no U.S. manufacturer has yet received. The medal was as much for Grumman's amazing production record as for his superb planes...
Marianne tried to stop his drinking, hated his hearty companions. Back in the Channel Islands, lovely Marguerite pined, refused to marry. "It appears," said Housewife Marianne chillily, "that she has not been able to summon the emotion that would have enabled her to overcome her natural reluctance for exertion...
Cotton Ed Smith, galumphing off to the Senate chamber, liked to say that he was "going over to the Cave of the Winds." During his 35 years in the Senate, he himself could summon up as hot a sirocco as any that scorched the Ship of State. A fit of temper would get him on his feet, and if he could not get the Speaker's attention, he would hack petulantly away on the arm of his chair with a penknife. The old man (80) has a somewhat high-pitched voice, corkscrewing oddly out of his mastiff jowls...
...very sense of wholeness was the Greeks' undoing. Athenians began to see life not as a "spiral of change and development," but as a "superbly closed circle"-"life arrested meant art perfected." When mortal danger threatened them, in the form of Alexander the Great, the Greeks could not summon themselves to the excess of battle...