Word: summonation
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...afraid." Today, he is still angry, but has less cause for fear: his new $1 million West End Women's Medical Group clinic, which opened in November, is a high-tech fortress with solid steel doors and magnetic locks, bullet-resistant windows, infrared motion detectors, panic buttons to summon police and a 70-ft. setback planted with thorn trees. Contractors experienced in prison and casino security designed the system, while some local SWAT-team police offered advice. "It's a bunker," Stutes says. "Flash Gordon couldn't get in here without being seen...
Both men were by temperament religious traditionalists. It is true that Pope John under the direct guidance of the Holy Spirit (this is the only way I can rationalize his decision to summon the Second Vatican Council) was capable of making startling and creative decisions. But his family background, training and career were totally unadventurous. He was steeped in old-style Catholicism. This made him, like the famous 19th century reformer W.E. Gladstone, a "conservative in everything but essentials." His spiritual diary reflects an almost childish simplicity in his devotions. The rosary was hardly ever out of his hands...
...from the Gingrich crowd, according to TIME political writer Michael Kramer. "Newt's free ride in the world of big think ends this week, " Kramer writes in this week's issue of TIME. But will the Dem's embattled big chief sign on? Writes Kramer: "Few expect him to summon the courage to tackle entitlements seriously...
...overtures during the creation process; both relent in the face of the beloved's tender words. The earlier doctor seeks glory in a way that Branagh's does not, permitting an audience for the actual reanimation process to prove his sanity and prowess. None of the creators can summon the demented courage of Shelley's doctor to choose science over their human life. This is a reflection of the horror in which Shelley held the act of human creation: it necessarily meant selling one's soul to pursue such a dark...
Halfway into the meeting, the mayor moved to suspend the rules of the council and to summon four city and school officials to testify on how the confusion arose...