Word: summon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trim, 5-ft. 6-in. man, dressed in spotless white shirt and breeches with soft leather belt, bounded into the spotlight of the center ring and doffed his pith helmet. Then, whip in his right hand, a steel-reinforced chair plus blank-loaded pistol in his left, he would summon the first ferocious cat into the cage...
...Olympics. I endeavored to hold on for the tour, but it just wasn't possible." Fans in New Zealand felt that if Snell had eased up on his training, it was because he had been a reluctant hero from the start, had never been able to summon the insatiable competitive instincts that keep driving most champions. When his superb conditioning faded, so too did his desire...
Johnson was not exactly sure of what to do with the Bundy operation. He found out soon enough. During the Panama crisis in January 1964, Bundy was off in Antigua on vacation. The President did not summon him back, but he gradually became aware that the memos on national security were not so crisply phrased, the advice was not so succinct and pointed as when Bundy was around. From that time on, Bundy had President Johnson's full confidence. And when Bundy routinely submitted his resignation after Johnson was elected in his own right...
Perhaps that is the main problem of the academic community in this context. When we try to comprehend the fatigue of men like James Lee Jackson and Malcolm X, the closest feeling we can summon up is boredom. Because we are bored, not tired, we go North and South, demonstrating for every conceivable cause. And it is also why we can leave those causes so quickly. They pall...
...biggest job is political -acting as a peace-keeping mediator. In any dispute, at least one of the parties must request OAS help before it will intervene. Routine squabbles are handled by the permanent Council of OAS Ambassadors which meets twice a month; in serious cases, the Council may summon a meeting of OAS foreign ministers, or simply sit in for the ministers, acting on orders from home. The final OAS decision by two-thirds vote is binding...