Word: summonings
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...inaudible "yellow" alert will summon civil defense personnel to their positions. At 9:35 the "red" alert, a series of short siren blasts continuing for three minutes, will call the public to participate in the drill...
...Thus," wrote Taegliche Rundschau, "Lenin gave a classic example of the adaptation of Marxist strategy and tactics. He taught that detours often are necessary if, at a given moment, the opponent is superior in strength; that one must withdraw temporarily in order to summon up new strength. Only thus will it be possible to prepare the new attack, to establish the basis for the final victory ..." The Kremlin masters, it is safe to assume, have read their Lenin...
...button switch that he presses with his toe to stop the motion, e.g., when the kids are playing in the room and a ball rolls underneath, and restart it. There is also a bulb-type air horn which squawks like a duck when he presses it to summon attention...
With that thought in mind, Fund began his experiment about a month ago, repeated it three different times. His class would elect a boy to retire to the cloakroom and there summon a girl to come out and be kissed. At first, Fund noted that his students were shy, but gradually, he was glad to see, they began to loosen up. At the end of a month, his experiment seemed, from his point of view, a success. It became, says Fund proudly, "a very noisy game...
...most popular sport among German-speaking Swiss (about three-quarters of the country's people) is the ancient game of Hornuss (from the German for "hornet"). Hornuss is a rough, hard-hitting mixture of golf, baseball, cricket and guided-missile warfare. Peaceful farmers summon up martial blood when they get playing Hornuss; Swiss city folks sneer affectionately at the game as "stratosphere pingpong," but they turn out in droves to watch it played...