Word: summonings
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...pretty Sugar Ray could no longer summon the desire...
...time being, Begin appeared to have won some breathing space with his decision to allow a full judicial inquiry. The three-member panel* will have the authority to summon whatever witnesses and documents it wants. Although the commission may make recommendations based on its findings, which are expected to be published within two to four months, it cannot force the Cabinet to carry them out. If the panel calls for the dismissal of any Cabinet members, it may be ignored. Said one Begin aide: "I'm not sure the commission can give a recommendation that a politician...
...Victorian diction has imposed its own restraints, as exemplified by such pronouncements as: "I am heartsick that there may well be those persons of the masculine gender, who, lacking an intrinsic purity of character, may, by laborious effort, and much unseemly exercise of the lower ranges of the imagination, summon forth a prurient gratification, from these hapless pages...
...regard Avery as a potentially abstract painter who could not quite summon up the courage to drop content was one of the minor illusions of the '60s. Avery was uncompromisingly a figurative artist, like his mentors: Matisse and to some extent Picasso in Europe, and in America such painters as Ryder (with his visionary seascapes) and Twachtman. What his best works offer is a very American sense of Arcadia, a hard-won paradise of the natural world reconstructed in terms of color. Shape is reduced to the minimum: some flat silhouettes, relatively little internal texture...
...moment of pride for Texas, or for Republican Governor William Clements, who is in the midst of a tough re-election fight. Growing layoffs have brought the state unemployment compensation fund to the edge of bankruptcy. Clements last week was forced to summon a special session of the legislature to bail out the fund. After two days of partisan debate, both senate and house passed a measure authorizing the state to borrow up to $350 million (at 10% interest) from the federal Unemployment Trust Fund. The legislative package will also require employers to increase their contributions to the fund...