Word: summoning
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...butchery, but history has been somewhat kinder to the King, who may or may not have wanted his wish thus fulfilled. As soon as Henry learned that the knights who overheard his question had hastily departed from his court, he guessed their mission and sent a messenger to summon them back. And when he heard that his onetime friend Becket had indeed been murdered, according to the contemporary chronicle of Arnulf of Lisieux, "the King burst into loud cries of grief ... At times he seemed stupefied with suffering, but then he would begin groaning again and calling out more loudly...
...dining companion--and not, I assume, to me. I order the Earl Grey tea and the Macbeth--a petite ham-and-cheese panini, the preferred snack of bloody-minded Scottish tyrants. Mikami leaves to prepare the tea but not before showing us a golden bell we can use to summon him. We hunger. We ring. He runs. Six seconds. Jeeves would be proud...
...Congress--the most broadly representative and directly accountable branch of government--the authority to "declare War," to raise and support armies (while specifying that "no Appropriation of Money for that use shall be for a longer term than two years"), to "provide and maintain a Navy" and to summon into federal service, organize, arm and discipline the state militias. But they also anointed the President--theoretically, at least, somewhat insulated from popular whim by the Electoral College--as the "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several states" when...
...father alive!") Early in the film, Abhishek uses his dimples to underline the notion of innocent ambition. As the character ages, Abhishek's playing shades toward Hollywood models: from Godfather Pacino to Godfather Brando. He hasn't quite the capacity for leonine rage those two stars (and Amitabh) can summon, but he does an excellent...
...There are now about 42,000 Western troops (slightly more than half American) deployed in Afghanistan. They often summon the U.S. Air Force to bomb enemy positions, indicating just how resilient these mountain fighters can be. Nearly 300 Americans have been killed in and around Afghanistan, about 10% of the U.S. death toll in Iraq...