Word: summon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also a major meat packer and producer of chemicals and Pharmaceuticals with a strong management team. Still, there was little Haynie could do to stop Ling-even after he realized the extent of the Texan's designs on his company. In a matter of days, before Haynie could summon his board of directors, Ling-Temco-Vought had corralled a sizable chunk of Wilson's stock by offering holders $62.50 per share, 25% over the Dec. 20 New York Stock Exchange closing. By Jan. 5, L-T-V held 53%, thus making Wilson a member of the family...
That being the case, it is hardly likely that passive pro-pots alone will be able to summon the energy to outargue the active anti-pots. The President's Crime Commission is expected to submit recommendations soon on modern izing law enforcement; it is conceivable that the commission might propose making marihuana legal. Until then, The Marihuana Papers will have to be regarded strictly as a puff...
...just what they are planning. More often than not, they call me." As a result, the police department knows precisely what size force to deploy without wasting men. Sometimes an entire demonstration requires only two C.D. men (invariably a white-Negro team); alert to changing moods, the team can summon help quickly if things start to turn ugly...
Calling Brisbane. Senate Leader Mansfield finally managed to summon back enough campaigning Senators (many of them aboard Air Force planes) on Saturday to assure a quorum. The bill flipped through by a 31-22 vote. By late afternoon, Mansfield and Acting House Majority Leader Hale Boggs had made their traditional adjournment calls to the President-in Brisbane, Australia, waking him from a sound sleep. Said the President to Boggs, "Congress has done an outstanding job." Replied Boggs: "Go back to sleep, Mr. President...
Brown, on the other hand, has tried "Hubert Humphrey campaigning." He likes to make 20 five-minute speeches a day, stopping off at amusement parks, beaches, and shopping centers to shake hands. He hopes that his advance men will be able to summon crowds for these impromptu appearances...