Word: summoner
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From that research, scientists are gaining intriguing insights into the people we become as adults. Does the manager who runs a congenial office call on the peacemaking skills learned in the family playroom? Does the student struggling with a professor who plays favorites summon up the coping skills acquired from dealing with a sister who was Daddy's girl? Do husbands and wives benefit from the intergender negotiations they waged when their most important partners were their sisters and brothers? All that is under investigation. "Siblings have just been off the radar screen until now," says Conger. But today serious...
...delivery. They had spoken of, and planned for, this moment for weeks, but neither of them had expected their scheme would come to fruition, and certainly not in so haphazard a fashion. But there they were nonetheless. Success lay just a hundred yards away if they could only summon the courage to sprint to their Harvard brethren, dog in tow. Slowly jogging onto the grass, they led Handsome Dan in circles, drawing thunderous applause from a host of Elis. Then, without warning, they broke for the visitor’s side, sprinting across the pitch as the Yale fan base...
...against women have not entirely disappeared. In 2003, a string of students were sexually assaulted in Cambridge Common, leading the University to install emergency call phones to improve safety on the walk to the Quad. The Harvard-operated phones, marked by distinctive blue lights, can be used to directly summon police. Earlier requests for such phones had been denied because Harvard did not own the land. It took the series of assaults for Harvard to agree to the callboxes, which were installed in the fall of 2004 at a cost of $12,000 to the University...
...only did the movement's founding fathers summon up their far-flung homelands in paint, but they would return to them by decade's end, setting up outstations at places like Kintore and Kiwirrkura near the Western Australian border. Their signature dotted style not only dazzled the art market but also kept their sacred stories screened, in the process producing "masterpieces of ambiguity, equivocation and disguise," cultural theorist Paul Carter has written. By the mid-'90s, as the senior men began to pass away, their wives and daughters took up the brush, releasing a second wave of artists. Nearing...
...program, which has been under way since 2001--with information provided by the nation's three largest phone companies--and has produced what is reported to be the largest such database ever. But while lawmakers vowed closer oversight--with Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter announcing that he would summon the heads of the three phone companies to testify, under subpoena if necessary--few politicians went so far as to say that Bush should not have done...