"Most of these guys will take a $100 summons, go around the corner and make another stop," he said.
Bier summons fine performances all around, but Nielsen, in particular, turns the role of Christian into a drama all its own.
When she's finished bossing Mrs. March and the boys around, she summons Mr. Kreindl, a neighbor, for klabyasch, an old-country card game, which she plays with "sharp gold in her eyes".
Wal-Mart acknowledges that it summoned employees around the country to warn them about the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow unions to organize companies if more than half the workers signed cards agreeing to join, dispensing with the need for a secret ballot.
This would make Mr. Rodriguez's efforts to resuscitate Nixzmary — which he said he began briefly before sending his wife to summon help around 4 a.m. on Jan . 11and was still doing when paramedics arrived — pointless, said Ama Dwimoh, the lead prosecutor.
That is something of a throwback to the days when retail titans like Marshall Field himself "would walk around and summon the troops to battle," she said.
Every year, the E.R.L.C. summons Baptists from around the country to Opryland, a hotel complex enclosed in an enormous greenhouse, just up the highway from the Nashville airport.
Once the visitor and his friend had ordered, they summoned the nerve to look around at the other customers.
Rooster and the teen-agers who hang around his trailer summon a world on the fringes, which tells us precisely why the center isn't holding.
And I prefer his TV show, "No Reservations," a summons to eat adventurously around the world, to any of Deen's.
