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Word: summonses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even for a rainy Tuesday the courtyard seems empty. In one corner of the square, a cluster of boys with slicked-back hair and hair nets jostle one another. A black boy wanders by, a nylon stocking pulled over his head. The lunch bell summons everyone indoors. Only two people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Pay-as-You-Go Pedagogy | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

Any number of fierce advocates surround Ronald Reagan these days, all determined to carry out last November's election mandate. Each seems, however, to interpret the mandate as his very own, as an individual summons to overhaul his special part of the System. No one is more zealous than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zealous Lord of a Vast Domain | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

So it seemed. Next day police in Wroclaw attempted to serve a summons on another Solidarity adviser, Adam Michnik, a co-founder of KOR. Michnik, 38, refused to accept the document, which ordered him to appear at the state prosecutor's office in Warsaw in three days. In a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Bloc: Warsaw's New Crackdown | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

Rodgers displays the modesty and lightheadedness appropriate to a French wife, but reveals her character's cleverness at using feminine charm to unmask Tartuffe. In the funnlest scene, Elmire summons Tartuffe, instructing her husband to hide under the table so he may witness the ingrate's treachery for himself. The...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: A Malapropism | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

In 1953 Robert Lowell said the "Republic summons Ike" because "the mausoleum [was] in her heart." In 1980 the Republic summoned Ronald Reagan. Why?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Past, Fresh Choices for The Future | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

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