Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McNamara and his associates recognize that their proposal must be accompanied by a buildup of conventional forces on the Continent; they also question whether the alliance can summon the "necessary political will" to do so. Nonetheless, they argue, a shift in military policy would actually reduce the risk of Soviet cy would actually reduce the risk of Soviet aggression. While Moscow might be tempted today to seek a "quick and limited gain" that did not deserve a nuclear response, the Soviets would be less willing to take that gamble if confronted by a stronger conventional NATO defense. Although the authors...
Ellis, an elfin 42, made his name with highly imaginative sweater stylings for women. This spring he scored with a collection of women's wear in subtle pastels and shifting shapes that summon up echoes of the ragtime era. "When you're designing for women," he says, "you can do wonderfully imaginative clothes and create lots of different moods. With men you can do perhaps the same thing, but it's still more limited." Trying to work some stretch into those limitations, Ellis' leading men's jacket for fall will be long, narrowing gradually from...
...poverty did this. Inside their books was printed not EX LIBRIS but AD USUM-for the use of-indicating that it is better to lend than to keep, that all life's gifts are transitory. Should we not follow the clerics? Or might we just for once summon our true feelings on this subject and, upon hearing the terrible question, smile back and speak from the heart: "Mind? I'll break your arm, you bastard...
...were Endocrinologist George Cahill of Harvard Medical School, who testified that Sunny's comas had to have been caused by insulin injections, and Maria Schrallhammer, Sunny's personal maid of 23 years. She told the court that for nine hours Von Bülow had refused to summon medical help for his unconscious wife. Schrallhammer also discovered in Von Bülow's closet a small black bag containing vials of drugs and hypodermic needles, one of which was later found to have traces of insulin. Said Defense Attorney Herald Price Fahringer: "Her testimony...
...rates still hover at investment-ravaging levels. And the worst problem of all at the moment, unemployment (see cover story), prompted only a few passing words of concern. Summarized Reagan: "In the near future, the state of the union and the economy will be better, much better, if we summon the strength to continue on the course that we've charted...