Word: summonings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cardio-Fitness even has "panic buttons" on the walls, so a guest can summon help in case of emergency. (The buttons have not been used in the year and a half the center has been open.) Cardio-Fitness's 1,150 members, some of whom arrive with bodyguards in chauffeured limousines, pay $525 a year, usually picked up by an employer...
Burns has found all the Presidents to be courteous. Truman asked for an aide once but instructed Burns not to summon him to the phone if the fellow and his wife were having dinner. The morning that Tricia Nixon was to get married, the rain started and stopped several times, and plans for the Rose Garden ceremony teetered back and forth. Finally, Nixon called and politely asked, Operator, do you know if this wedding is going on today...
...professional convention watchers have suggested that, with the spread of swifter and cheaper electronic communication, the convention itself may some day become obsolete. After all, why spend four days in St. Louis when you can summon up all the data you need on your desktop video display terminal, and talk to whomever you want on your WATS line? "In the not-too-distant future people will be able to sit in their homes and watch as well as participate in conventions," says Leo Bonardi, Hilton's eastern regional director of sales. "But to my way of thinking, electronics will never...
...fugitives recalled the "white night" exercises in which loudspeakers would summon all Jonestown residents from their sleep...
...first few minutes, after setting off again, I fell every ten or so steps. My mind couldn't control my legs, let alone summon the strength to boost me back up. Once down I would sway on my knees, occasionally falling flat on my face, until one or another or two of the men hoisted me up. As soon as they put a jacket on me I warmed up, regained some strength and considerably more sense. They wanted to make me drop my pack, as Mike had done. By then I knew enough to say no. We were below treeline...