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Word: summonings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...furor would make an episode in it self. Undoubtedly, Southwold Solicitor Sir Geoffrey would summon a conclave to cope with the scandal. Richard might well consider putting the screws on the outraged Dowager Lady Southwold to increase his allowance in exchange for suppressing his earlier diaries. Richard's middle-class daughter-in-law Hazel would surely stick up for the servants' right to publish, and James would profit from the occasion by borrowing ten ners from a suddenly flush Hudson. As for Mrs. Bridges, it is obvious that the good woman's recipe book would be come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Roads to Eaton Place | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...Saukam Khoy's first acts was to summon all of Cambodia's senior generals for a seven-hour meeting to determine whether anything could be salvaged from Phnom-Penh's parlous military situation. By the time the conference broke up at 1 a.m., Saukam Khoy had decided to give a morale-boosting pay raise to all military personnel (a one-star general makes only $25 a month), though nobody was sure where the money would come from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: WAITING FOR THE FALL | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

...false eyelashes for poodles, snoods to keep bassets' ears out of the sterling-silver feeding bowl, bikinis, ski suits and sunglasses for vacationing types, earrings, mascara and nail polish in a dozen colors. On his birthday a pet can expect to receive blue or pink cards and summon his pals-on his own phone-for a birthday cake of liver with powdered-milk icing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great American Animal Farm | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

...teva will not settle down and that Laca could not live with the child, she drowns Jenufa's baby. Though Jenufa and Laca decide to marry in the end, there is an almost untouchable sadness about the opera. Janáček in middle age seemed able to summon back the passions of youth and apply the judgment of experience to their consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New-Old Gem | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...military administration would rule until there are free democratic elections (no date was set) and a new constitution is drawn up to provide for-among other things -freedom of speech, land reform and the separation of church and state. Ethiopia's new leaders said that they planned to summon home from Geneva Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, 57, Haile Selassie's son, and anoint him as Ethiopia's King (significantly, not Emperor). Wossen, who is partially paralyzed from a stroke that he suffered two years ago, would be nothing more than a figurehead, and the likelihood is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: The End of the Lion of Judah | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

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