Word: summoning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There were screams, wailing-just the rawest, most visceral sounds of pain that human voices can summon. As the screams died, Kennedy resumed, slowly, pausing frequently, measuring his words: "Martin Luther King ... dedicated his life ... to love ... and to justice between fellow human beings, and he died in the cause of that effort." There was near total silence now. One senses, listening to the tape years later, the audience's trust in the man on the podium, a man who didn't merely feel the crowd's pain but shared it. And Kennedy reciprocated: he laid himself bare for them...
...President should be on a plane to Europe and to the region. He should insist that the major powers and Iraq's neighbors join us in putting maximum pressure on the Iraqis to compromise. He should summon the Iraqi leadership together - and not let them leave until they reach agreement on a unity government...
...have in recent days clashed with their dean, Alan A. Altshuler. The battle reached a boiling point this week, when the Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing board—intervened with an unusual letter of support for Altshuler and a pledge to summon incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok to help resolve the matter next week...
...least for one game, the Harvard men’s basketball team would have been well served to summon the spirit of its dreadful 2003-04 season...
...least for one game, the Harvard men’s basketball team would have been well served to summon the spirit of its dreadful 2003-04 season. Despite going 4-23 overall and 3-11 in the Ivy League during that campaign—the school’s worst in over 50 years—the Crimson managed to pull off a spirited upset of Yale at home to snap a six game losing streak, the highlight of an otherwise mostly dismal year. Two years and four days later, on Saturday night at Lavietes Pavilion, there would...