Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moscow provided baggy civilian suits and political sanctuary for the four, prompting the U.S. to summon Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin to the State Department, where Deputy Under Secretary of State Foy D. Kohler orally protested the "highly improper" Soviet behavior of "assisting, harboring and exploiting" the men. "Such conduct cannot fail to complicate further the relations between our two countries," said Kohler. At the request of the four men, according to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, access to them was denied U.S. embassy representatives and Western newsmen...
Notwithstanding its fiery moments, the debate was curiously lopsided; whether by accident or design, there was no white adversary present who could summon the intelligence and articulation to represent a moderate point of view...
...citizens have led lives unaffected by what the Supreme Court has wrought since Earl Warren became Chief Justice in 1953. The very words "the Warren court" summon in many an instant surge of anger or admiration. Much of that emotion is directed toward Warren personally. "Biggest damfool mistake I ever made," Dwight Eisenhower said privately some years after appointing him. "The greatest Chief Justice of them all," Lyndon Johnson wrote affectionately before Warren's birthday party last year...
...television drama by Nicholas E. Baehr, The Incident is a taut, disturbing drama that tries to clarify why men fail to help each other in times of stress and danger. Unquestionably, the passengers could have saved themselves; any one of them might have got off to summon help before the thugs thought to block the doors, or at least yanked the emergency cord. Nobody does, because the paralysis of fear has linked them all. The eventual resolution is placed in the hands of the one person least caught up in the life of the jungle of cities-the crippled Oklahoma...
...audio-oriented type who can summon up his French accent and repeat the title aloud several times will be quick to grasp the fact that this slim and learned volume is nothing more than Mother Goose rhymes. The odd effect is created by arranging French words to form homonymic approximations of the familiar English rhymes; the literal translation is always something wildly nonsensical. Thus "Jack and Jill...