Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...infinitely preferable to Renata Tebaldi lumbering about the stage in yards of flowered silk, but vocally, Miss Tsukamoto provided only the barest outlines of any kind of Butterfly at all. Her pleasant voice was often completely inaudible in low-lying or pianissimo passages, and only occasionally did she summon anything like the power necessary for Butterfly's big moments. A soprano who can sing the second act of Butterfly should also be able to sing Tosca: they are both "Italian operas," and the first rule for singing in an Italian opera is to make sure everyone can hear you. Refinements...
Clash at the Council. World hopes for Vatican II reached their peak right after Pope John announced that he would summon a council whose aims were the renewal of the church and the union of Christianity. Expectations, in Protestant and Orthodox circles, dropped notably after it was made clear that