Word: summon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow this week, after last-minute revisions to satisfy NATO allies, will go the U.S. answer to Khrushchev's last-month memorandum on Berlin. The State Department will release a White Paper on Berlin to further justify the Western stand. The President this week will also summon congressional leaders to brief them on U.S. plans (his top aides have already visited Gettysburg to inform Dwight Eisenhower), issue a statement on Berlin at his midweek press conference, hold a planning session of the National Security Council...
...America in 1942 while under Japanese bomber attack; of a stroke; in London. His oddest lifesaving exploit occurred off Ireland in 1939, when a Nazi U-boat torpedoed the British freighter Olive Grove only after waiting for her 33-man crew to escape in rowboats, then fired rockets to summon Stedman's liner, the Washington, to the rescue...
After three weeks of meditation and tropical anonymity in Nassau and Florida, former Vice President Richard Nixon emerged long enough to summon Hearst Reporter and bestselling Author Jim (The Day Christ Died) Bishop to reveal some intriguing inklings of his future plans. To all who would challenge his leadership of the Republican Party, he had a firm reply: "No one becomes a leader by saying, 'I am the leader.' The contributions I made to the party, their quality as well as their quantity, will make me the actual leader of the Republican Party. I am the leader...
...news was considered urgent enough to summon members of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee to Washington for an urgent unscheduled meeting. CIA Director Allen Dulles hastily arranged a talk with President-elect John Kennedy. Around it all was an aura of deep secrecy. Was it someone's first successful Abomb? Was it a nuclear pile gone critical? Those in the know would say only that there has been an "atomic development" by an "nth power...
...trial for her life last week, shriveled Sarah Harvey sat impassively beside her nurse, collapsing into sobs only when her son took the stand. But she stuck to her story that Mrs. Knight had been taken suddenly ill one night and died in agony before she could summon a doctor. In panic, said Mrs. Harvey, she had dragged the corpse into the closet; she had collected the money only because she feared she would be accused of murder if the death were discovered. The prosecution's case hung like a thread on the ligature around the mummy...