Word: summone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mounts in Whitehall, children may taunt them, cameramen may pop flashbulbs in their faces, and tourist guides may speak about the guardsmen as if they were not really there. The guardsman is under orders never to move a muscle except to control his horse, never to speak except to summon a policeman or foot sentry "if something happens." For almost 300 years it has been that...
...four men who were hanged or shot in Budapest last week were not executed in punishment for their crimes, real or fancied. They were killed to alert the Communist world to a major Russian policy decision-a decision so important that Nikita Khrushchev felt obliged to summon four of his principal ambassadors (including ever-smiling Mikhail Menshikov, busy-bee Washington partygoer and TV performer) back to Moscow for conferences, and to call an extraordinary meeting of the 130-man Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R...
...duel went on in a strange silence -a silence imposed on the mass of the French people not by Jules Moch's troopers but by a fundamental indecision. Economically prosperous, politically cynical and weary, Frenchmen could not summon up enough enthusiasm for De Gaulle to rush to the barricades on his behalf. But for the most part they seemed not to feel enough hostility to offer him active opposition, were apparently prepared to accept him as ruler of France, if it came to that. When, early last week, France's two biggest unions called for a general work...
...that reverberated in the imagination of Colombey's first citizen, a towering man of 67 with an equine face and the stiff, awkward movements of a French career soldier. And they were sounds that drove him at last to pick up the telephone, an instrument he dislikes, and summon an aide from Paris to receive a typically laconic statement: "For twelve years France, at grips with problems too harsh for the regime of political parties, has pursued a disastrous course . . . Today, in the face of the troubles that again engulf the country, it should be known that...
...Istiqlal Party, which led the agitation for independence. Recognizing Istiqlal strength, Mohammed filled his Cabinet with Istiqlal men but chose as first Premier pro-Western Si M'Barek ben Mustapha el Bekkai, a man without a party. Fortnight ago, at 4:30 one morning, the King had to summon Si Bekkai to his palace and proclaim his government dissolved...