Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caught in the tightest squeeze of its history. Warning that inventories were depleted "almost to the vanishing point," three leading trade groups hammered on Washington's doors asking for a personal meeting with the President. They wanted him to release 100,000 tons of stockpiled Chilean copper, summon a special session of Congress, if necessary...
...drink, dance, and hang around the common room looking for votes. For pool shooters, they have provided detailed photographs of almost every public table in the University. Every party, every dance, must have been dutifully attended by a Yearbook photographer. And each of the eight House committees managed to summon a quorum and look properly awake for its constituents. But for the nonpool player who learned years ago that college students drink, attend parties, and politick, 319 has very little to offer...
...then more numerous Indians, used Indian guides and bearers, rarely wore their heavy steel cuirasses. McDonald's men, by contrast, lugged 75-lb. packs and had to cut their their own way through the jungle with machetes. But the 1955 expedition was safer; radios could quickly summon help in the form of rescue helicopters. In an emergency, the roar of a whirly-bird's engine might well sound more beautiful than the clinking of all the gold that once went over the jungle-crowded Camino Real...
...still Wellesley-educated Madame Chiang. She is not as influential as she once was, and her patronage is no longer regarded as the sure road to preference. She repairs every day to her office of her "Chinese Women's Anti-Aggression League," to which she can and does summon ministers at will. "My role is very simple," she explains. "I assist my husband...
...other fields, the Committee will summon candidates for oral examinations, Cohen said. Recommendations for honors will be based on the thesis, the special field examination, tutorial reports, and grades obtained in courses counting for concentration in History and Science...