Word: summonation
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With the members so evenly divided, it was obvious that the General Assembly would be unable to summon up a two-thirds majority to make any recommendations on Algeria. Indeed, had the French chosen to remain and maneuver instead of flying off in a huff that was more suggestive of guilty conscience than outraged innocence, they might well have persuaded a few delegates to change their minds and thereby table debate of the Algerian case indefinitely...
...Cabinet went so far as to summon the army's Chief of Staff to brief it on the consequences of quitting NATO-only to arrive at the obvious decision that Greece, for all its anger, would hurt itself most by giving up its only defense against Communism...
...caught in the tightest squeeze of its history. Warning that inventories were depleted "almost to the vanishing point," three leading trade groups hammered on Washington's doors asking for a personal meeting with the President. They wanted him to release 100,000 tons of stockpiled Chilean copper, summon a special session of Congress, if necessary...
...drink, dance, and hang around the common room looking for votes. For pool shooters, they have provided detailed photographs of almost every public table in the University. Every party, every dance, must have been dutifully attended by a Yearbook photographer. And each of the eight House committees managed to summon a quorum and look properly awake for its constituents. But for the nonpool player who learned years ago that college students drink, attend parties, and politick, 319 has very little to offer...
...then more numerous Indians, used Indian guides and bearers, rarely wore their heavy steel cuirasses. McDonald's men, by contrast, lugged 75-lb. packs and had to cut their their own way through the jungle with machetes. But the 1955 expedition was safer; radios could quickly summon help in the form of rescue helicopters. In an emergency, the roar of a whirly-bird's engine might well sound more beautiful than the clinking of all the gold that once went over the jungle-crowded Camino Real...