Word: summoners
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...removed, and to order the Army's Special Forces to put back on the green berets that had earlier been banned ("They need something to make them distinctive"). When he wanted a haircut a few weeks ago after a hard day of work, he simply had his secretary summon a barber to his White House office. There, the barber neatly spread a white cloth in front of the presidential desk, lifted a chair onto the cloth and began snipping away. The President of the U.S. tilted back his chair, picked up his afternoon paper, and smiled happily...
...support of a Colombian proposal, the 21-member Organization of American States last week voted 14-2 (with five abstentions) to summon foreign ministers to a Jan. 10 conference on Cuba...
...miss of these words that struck me most. I knew the collocution was supposed to represent me and no one else, but it always seemed odd that so loose an approximation as a name could have a claim on you, could intervene in your life, could summon you to the gallows, or to a party out of the blue like that...
...British army during its occupation of Azerbaijan in 1918. Cried Khrushchev: "You are not a true Communist and never even joined a party organization." Beria, who was presumably above being frisked by his own men, pulled a gun. Khrushchev leaped on him, and Malenkov stubbed a floor buzzer to summon Moskalenko's men, who (according to slightly differing versions) either led him out of the room or machine-gunned him on the spot...
...wore it myself as a tiepin. It was my period of dandyism." Giacometti says his first clips and buttons were made "to earn some money" and that, in recent years, he has refused invitations to make some jewelry because he has not been able to "summon up enough interest...