Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Dove Song, which soars over ribbons of strings, and in a fine female duet ("He will, he must He'll be coming back" ) toward the end. For all that, Wings of the Dove suffers from a case of dramatic anemia. Composer Moore does his best to summon drama where no drama exists, but the assignment is hopeless. In its succession of empty climaxes, the score loses almost all its tension. James's novel, the opera demonstrates once more, is best left to its own complexities...
Four days and 16 jungle miles after the forced landing, Nagle's survival-kit radio managed to summon a rescue helicopter. "Nobody enjoys an experience like that," said Captain Nagle, "but that is what you're trained to meet." And last week he was right back on the job. He had reached the Meos at last, was teaching the tribesmen new techniques for fighting the Communist Pathet Lao rebels...