Word: summonsed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the days of Louis XIV, a summons to the King's court brought the men and women of consequence tumbling out of the boudoirs and the countinghouses and off the battlefields for the required rituals of obeisance and jollity that the Sun King needed for self-assurance. Louis...
EVERYONE ELSE on the scene wants to be a hero, too; the dizzy head teller refuses her chance to be released from the bank, waves exhilaratedly at the TV cameras and marches back inside, and the police chief, in John Waynesque extravagance, summons several hundred of his men when ten...
Will the new TV season feature the same old guns, rape, murder and arson? Yup. But with a difference. This fall the networks have agreed that between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Eastern Time (6 to 8 Central Tune) is to be "family time," when Mom, Pop, the kids and...
Malpractice complaints, once a relative rarity, have become commonplace. As recently as 1960, most physicians could expect to go through a lifetime of practice without seeing a summons. Now, reports a 44-state study, one out of every seven general surgeons is facing a malpractice complaint. The sums involved can...
In my own case I had been out in the world and at work for half a year when a diploma arrived announcing that I had just been graduated from Harvard in the Class of '50. I hadn't known that. As best as I can recall no one ever...