Word: summone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...button switch that he presses with his toe to stop the motion, e.g., when the kids are playing in the room and a ball rolls underneath, and restart it. There is also a bulb-type air horn which squawks like a duck when he presses it to summon attention...
With that thought in mind, Fund began his experiment about a month ago, repeated it three different times. His class would elect a boy to retire to the cloakroom and there summon a girl to come out and be kissed. At first, Fund noted that his students were shy, but gradually, he was glad to see, they began to loosen up. At the end of a month, his experiment seemed, from his point of view, a success. It became, says Fund proudly, "a very noisy game...
...most popular sport among German-speaking Swiss (about three-quarters of the country's people) is the ancient game of Hornuss (from the German for "hornet"). Hornuss is a rough, hard-hitting mixture of golf, baseball, cricket and guided-missile warfare. Peaceful farmers summon up martial blood when they get playing Hornuss; Swiss city folks sneer affectionately at the game as "stratosphere pingpong," but they turn out in droves to watch it played...
...rumpling his hair, he lectured in a gentle voice, pausing awkwardly now & then to glance at his crumpled fistful of notes, or to gaze distractedly out of the window. But however labored his delivery, his message took hold. Philosophy, he declared, could not lean on eternal verities, nor summon up answers, for there are no ultimate answers to be summoned. "The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution," said he, "it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda...
...formal order last week, the government forbade Sachs to hold any public meetings. His reply was to summon his unionists to a fiery protest meeting outside the Johannesburg City Hall. Twelve thousand turned up, bearing banners: "Solly helped us, now let us help him." According to the police, they also brought a car loaded with empty bottles. Soon after Sachs began to speak, police charged forward, armed with revolvers and truncheons. While screaming women battered them with sticks, bottles, and legs torn off tables and chairs, the police dragged Sachs inside the City Hall, barricaded the main door, and then...