Word: summone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affairs of state. Robert Cutler, chairman of the Planning Board of the National Security Council, had flown in from Washington with a fat dispatch case full of international problems, and was waiting at the summer White House when Ike arrived. After a four-hour conference, the President decided to summon John Foster Dulles to Denver for a full report and consultation (see above...
...those disastrous years prior to September 1939, you will recall, one notable voice was never heard from Broadcasting House; a voice which, in 1940 when it was almost too late, was able to summon up endurance and courage . . . How wonderful it would have been if this voice. Sir Winston Churchill's, had been heard on the air warning of the wrath to come . . . The Corporation, however, would not have it [because of Britain's] appeasement policy ... I would myself cheerfully have put up with hours of Mr. J. Fred Muggs for such a deliverance as Sir Winston Churchill...
...come from a hospital bed to trounce a 25-year-old redhead named Donald Budge, the 1938 U.S. amateur champion. Budge called Tilden "the only genius tennis has produced." Even in his late 505, grey and spare, he was still at it, still able, for one set, to summon up flashes of a great game...
...inaudible "yellow" alert will summon civil defense personnel to their positions. At 9:35 the "red" alert, a series of short siren blasts continuing for three minutes, will call the public to participate in the drill...
...Thus," wrote Taegliche Rundschau, "Lenin gave a classic example of the adaptation of Marxist strategy and tactics. He taught that detours often are necessary if, at a given moment, the opponent is superior in strength; that one must withdraw temporarily in order to summon up new strength. Only thus will it be possible to prepare the new attack, to establish the basis for the final victory ..." The Kremlin masters, it is safe to assume, have read their Lenin...