Word: summon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owner of the cafe defended the Movement, maintaining that it was immoral to fight back and impractical to reason with poor whites. A highly sophisticated debate followed--but it was more than words. Both men knew that the next day SNCC would once again summon the Negro community to march nonviolently on the state capitol. Similar discussions were going on throughout the ghetto; for the Movement is the central fact in the life and thought of every Montgomery Negro, whether or not he considers himself in the Movement...
...score is jaggedly dissonant, an extension of the twelve-tone music espoused by Nono's idol and father-in-law, the late Composer Arnold Schoenberg. Italian Composer Bruno Maderna conducted the performance like a man refereeing a pingpong match, swinging from side to side to summon a swatch of mewing strings here, a splash of braying trumpets there. For the singers it was "up and down, up and down, from high C to low F," said Tenor Lawrence White. "It's enough to drive you crazy...
Bennett and Miss Miller, a former Wellesley student, worked for 45 minutes in temperatures of 10 to 20 below zero in an effort to free Mitchell. When all efforts failed, Bennett ran to a nearby farmhouse to summon aid. State and local rescue squads were soon at the cave site...
...dear native land would have to be quick about it: Nigeria was perilously close to a political breakup. "If Nigeria must disintegrate, then in the name of God, let the operation be short and painless," mourned President Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe in a nationwide radio broadcast, calling on politicians to "summon a round-table conference to decide how our national assets should be divided." Continued Zik: "Should the politicians fail to heed this warning, then I venture the prediction that the experience of the Congo will be child's play if it ever comes our turn to play such...
...turned out that the cousin was indeed an authority on "dirty books;" she even helps select them for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As soon as she had all the details, she called the chairman and asked him to summon a meeting of the Massachusetts Obscene Literature Control Commission, in order that it might consider the case of the notorious Fanny Hill, which is chock full of tales of sexual experiences...