Word: summone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parley at the summit." Cracked France's Georges Bidault: "Any conference with a man on the verge of disappearance has no urgent character." Caught short with their favorite thesis that the U.S. is rattling H-bombs while the Russians hunger for peace, India's newspapers could summon up only honest, slack-jawed surprise at what the Times of India called Russia's "accents of unbending hostility...
...Florence to become the world's foremost authority on Renaissance art.) At the turn of the century, Mrs. Jack started construction of an Italian palace in the marshes on the outskirts of Boston. Already in her 60s, she joined workmen on the job, employed a cornetist to summon her foremen for conferences...
...session, Knowland had an issue of "greater importance" to discuss. He feared that the U.S. was being lulled into a blind policy of coexistence with Soviet Russia that would ultimately lead to Communist conquest. Then he made an astonishing proposal: Committees of the 84th Congress, early next year, should "summon the State and Defense officials and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to fully inquire into our foreign and defense policy to find out where in their judgment it will take us and whether ... a basic change in the direction of our policy is warranted...
...drum. At 5:30 in the morning the mission awakes to it (da dee da da dee da da dee da-sukóla sukóla sukóla-wash wash wash). Often when her husband is in the jungle, Mrs. Carrington beats out a quick tattoo to summon him back to lunch (da da da da dee dee da dee . . . bosongo olimo konda...
...largely dispossessed royal counterparts, however, Rainier takes his ruling job seriously. He frequently seeks the advice and aid of wise Father Francis Tucker, his American-born court chaplain, and often drops in for lunch at Tucker's modest rectory. If the autocratic approach seems called for, Rainier can summon that up as well, as a group of Communists found out when they recently tried to hire a hall for a meeting in Monaco. Prince Rainier outlawed all party demonstrations whatever...