Word: summonation
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...from his car seconds later by passing state troopers alerted by 911 callers in the bank. As he sat handcuffed and cross-legged on the ground, Wells warned troopers there was a bomb beneath his T shirt and pleaded for help in getting it off. Officers backed off to summon the bomb squad, and as minutes ticked away, he became increasingly agitated and desperate. "I don't have a lot of time," he said. "It's gonna go off." And then, referring to a mysterious "he," Wells added, "He pulled a key out and started a timer. I heard...
General Electric's old advertising slogan--"We bring good things to life"--conjured the comforting glow of a GE light bulb or the hum of a refrigerator. Real stuff. The company's new catchphrase--"Imagination at work"--may soon summon visions of the Hulk or a horse named Seabiscuit. With GE entering talks last week to merge its NBC unit with Vivendi Universal's entertainment assets, the industrial powerhouse has muscled onto a media stage already crowded with Schwarzenegger-size conglomerates. For GE, imagination may soon have to do some heavy lifting...
...reverence and awe that one should have for soft furniture" and say, "Oh wow, what a sofa" without uttering the letter O. "I understand they choose a shop and descend on it," Robinson said at 6:40 p.m. as the mob dispersed, also as instructed - anonymous e-mails summon these mobs to pubs where minions of the mob coordinator distribute further instructions on when and where to gather and when to leave. "I couldn't break the tradition." Inexplicable mobs, or flash mobs, as they've also been dubbed, have become the social trend of the summer. Echoing back...
...says in a clipped Texas cadence. But after prosecuting violent crime for a quarter-century, Earle doesn't believe capital punishment is so simple. To be sure, he still supports death for those few brutal murderers he believes would never stop killing, even in prison. And Earle can still summon the swagger of your typical TV district attorney. He says executing serial killer Kenneth McDuff, who is thought to have murdered at least 11 people, was "like shooting a rabid...
David LeNeveu, the Big Red goaltender who seems to find new records to break every weekend, was sitting on the bench for an extra attacker while his teammates scrambled in the Harvard zone, trying to summon a year’s worth of angst to help them score one more goal...