Word: summone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fantastic events in which, trancelike, the Indians accepted the Nehru raj from Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last British viceroy. Baba teeters girlishly between the superstitious past (as a child she had retched over a dead fish's eye, which she tried to swallow in order to summon up strange powers) and the dull independent future, symbolized by her dull, enlightened father, who talks like an instructor in social science...
...then he will retire to his second-floor office, off the Senate Gallery, for a two-hour nap. Late in the afternoon he will reappear on the floor briefly, roam the cloak rooms, head for home before 6 p.m. In case of crisis, Johnson's vigilant colleagues will summon him from his hideaway...
...down-and-out with the Tropic's free lunch, paid fares home for the stranded, lent as much as $5,000 on a few moments' notice. Selling out meant burning $40,000 in old chits. But when a sob story sounded phony, vinegary Max Bilgray could also summon a waiter and say coldly: "Bring Mr. Smith the key to the crying room." In a warm salute to Bilgray, President Ricardo ("Dickie") Arias recently drove across the isthmus and awarded him Panama's Order of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa-doubtless a unique honor for a saloonkeeper...
...next two weeks O'Mahoney plans to summon competing auto-parts manufacturers, followed by complaining G.M. auto dealers, then wind up with top corporation officers led off by his star witness: G.M.'s President Harlow Curtice...
...give it more authority by changing its charter. In order to enforce disarmament the U.N. should have two basic powers which it now lacks: (1) a restricted but effective military force under its own control to back up its decisions, and (2) a World Court empowered to summon any disobeying nation before it. These powers would avoid war as a means of enforcement, and if administered impartially, should be acceptable to all countries...