Word: summone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel's pungent brew of harshly realistic detail, extravagant melodrama, sordid depravity and sentimental warmth. Between the dreary, bare-brick expanse of the parish workhouse where Oliver begins life as an orphan and the elegant Brownlow mansion where he finally takes his rightful place, the settings and costumes summon up all but the smells of Britain's lower depths in the early 1800s: "the cold, wet, shelterless midnight streets of London; the foul and frowsy dens, where vice is closely packed and lacks the room to turn; the haunts of hunger and disease; the shabby rags that scarcely...
...Hasty Heart. In Seattle, angered by a trolley motorman who forgot to call out her stop, a woman passenger 1) beat him with her umbrella, 2 ) followed him to a telephone and yanked it off the wall when he tried to summon help, 3) pelted him with canned goods from her shopping bag, 4) smashed the window of another trolley when its motorman refused to let her board...
Defense Secretary George Marshall last week ground out a policy order intended to stop college men from tossing away their books in mid-year and pounding down to the recruiting station. Gist of the new policy: while local draft boards can still summon college men for pre-induction physicals, that summons will no longer mean that a man has lost the right to pick his service. From now on (so long as the Air Force and Navy continue to have "openings"), any college man due to be drafted can pick his service right up to the last month...
Next day, Mr. Truman put his call to action in a formal emergency proclamation: "I summon all citizens ... I summon our farmers, our workers . . . and our businessmen ... I summon every person of every community to make, with a spirit of neighborliness, whatever sacrifices are necessary for the welfare of the nation...
Since 1936, the council has lost many disciplinary rights. It can no longer exercise "direct jurisdiction over individual students" or "summon before it individual students for questionings;" it is no longer required to create "a general sentiment that is in a question of individual honor to maintain strict attention to scholastic duties...