Word: summoners
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...crowded world where privacy is increasingly difficult, more and more Americans are trying to exert some measure of control over who can summon them out of a hot bath, a sound sleep, or an absorbing conversation. The unlisted phone number, long a hallmark of distinction for the few, has become nearly as common as a credit card...
Defense and counterpunching were ignored during the three freewheeling rounds, and by the closing minutes of round three neither fighter could summon the energy to take advantage of his opponent's drooping defense...
...well-dressed, middle-aged man walked into a branch of Tokyo's Teikoku Bank wearing the armband of a municipal official. Claiming that he was a city health inspector, the man ordered the bank manager to summon all his employees so that he could give them a dose of antidysentery medicine. The employees gulped the potion, then collapsed in agony. From the open vaults, the medicine man grabbed about $185 in cash and disappeared into the street. Behind him, twelve people lay dead of cyanide poisoning...
...five warned of the consequences of a rupture, but France's Couve de Murville was adamant. Walter Hallstein. chairman of the Common Market Commission, tried to change the wording of the proposal to make it more acceptable to the French. He failed. There was nothing to do but summon Heath to hear the final verdict. Each head of delegation read a prepared statement. Belgium's Spaak called the rupture "a monstrous thing.'' Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns was equally bitter, while Germany's Schroder pointedly told the French that "the Bundestag had only ratified...
...solidarity in some fashion, which, even if repeatedly betrayed and repudiated, remains no less a part of the natural order of things both with regard to the German danger and the Anglo-Saxon efforts to assert their hegemony. (1944) I am convinced that if France took the initiative to summon Europe to organize itself, in particular with German help, the whole European atmosphere from the Atlantic to the Urals would be changed...