Word: summone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time for Change. For young King "Freddie," as his London friends call him, it was a proud moment and sweet revenge for the humiliation back in 1953, when he watched Uganda's British Governor Sir Andrew Cohen touch a button in his office to summon a policeman. Then, King Freddie was unceremoniously hustled aboard a plane for exile in London without so much as a chance to change his clothes or say goodbye to his wife. King Freddie's sin was that he had dared defy the governor's plans for Uganda, of which Buganda is officially...
...wish to be well-adjusted. Russell writes, "Every isolated passion is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as a synthesis of insanities. Ever dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare. . . ." Russell's own solution: that every man summon in his mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others. What would Norman Vincent Peal say? It hardly matters. The dreamers in Russell's little book did not follow the advice of either philosopher...
...said that information that Kamin had worked in a government radar project in 1945-46, supplied by either Roy M. Cohn or Francis P. Carr, had caused him to summon Kamin as part of an investigation of Communist infiltration in defense installations...
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...