Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of the South, better known as Sewanee, sits high atop a Tennessee mountain, so close to heaven that undergraduates believe the institution has its own guardian angel. Hence the school ritual: when a student drives out through the sandstone gates, he taps the roof of his car to summon the angel. When he returns safely to campus, he taps the car roof again to release his protector. Lately that celestial patron has been off campus on a new mission, fund raising. When Tennessee Williams died last month, the University of the South found itself the principal beneficiary...
...Israelis have captured. When he is killed, as the plan now requires that he must be, Charlie will become an ostensibly bereaved and vengeful survivor. Kurtz wagers a number of lives, including his own, that the older brother and master terrorist will be curious enough about Charlie to summon her (and the Israelis...
...code is the latest manifestation of the church renewal begun by the Second Vatican Council, which ended in 1965. Indeed, Pope John XXIII proposed a revision of canon law in the same 1959 speech that announced his intention to summon the council. The new document is infused with the liberalizing spirit of Vatican II; it is far more pastoral in tone than the 1917 code, recognizing the rights of Catholics and minimizing penalties. For example, the number of ecclesiastical offenses that call for automatic excommunication has been reduced from 37 to seven (one of them is having or procuring...
...pretty Sugar Ray could no longer summon the desire...
...time being, Begin appeared to have won some breathing space with his decision to allow a full judicial inquiry. The three-member panel* will have the authority to summon whatever witnesses and documents it wants. Although the commission may make recommendations based on its findings, which are expected to be published within two to four months, it cannot force the Cabinet to carry them out. If the panel calls for the dismissal of any Cabinet members, it may be ignored. Said one Begin aide: "I'm not sure the commission can give a recommendation that a politician...