Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whoppers. It was a vast communal exercise in make-believe. There had to be more to Reagan than shallowness and deception, since he was so clearly sincere and his sincerity impressed others so indelibly. He became invulnerable in his personal appeal and winsomeness, and others had to summon up more and more of their own credulity along with expressions of respect. The very fabric of our politics was shot through with unreality. The Secretary of State pretended to be following a strong President while he was yielding to shadowy figures in the Executive Office Building, contributing to the surreal nature...
...sleep" part of my stay, I experienced the "no doctor" part. I arrived at UHS with a torn ligament in my right knee. Perhaps the nurses on duty mistook the convoluted look on my face for a warped smile, for they did not find it necessary to summon for me a doctor...
...Nixon is the proper spokesmen for [this American] ethos, then nothing could prove better how shrunken, small, how unheroic that ideal is. This politics will not summon us with trumpets. The tone of our public life is not the old one--"These qualities made America the great country it is, and we must be true to them." The present tone is "these qualities made the country what it is, and we must settle for them...
...skeleton of an elephant lies out in the grasses near a baobab tree and a scattering of black volcanic stones. The thick-trunked, gnarled baobab gesticulates with its branches, as if trying to summon help. There are no tusks lying among the bones, of course; ivory vanishes quickly in East Africa. The elephant is three weeks dead. Poachers. Not far away, a baby elephant walks alone. That is unusual. Elephants are careful mothers and do not leave their young unattended. The skeleton is the mother, and the baby is an orphan...
...maintain the strategic vision of his revolution, Deng will have to summon up all his reserves of political capital and tactical skills. At 82, will he have the time to deploy them...