Word: muster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legislator had voted to put the brakes on improving educational standards and against a law to unmask the Ku Klux Klan. Roy Collins ran against Johns for the final unexpired two years of McCarty's term. Collins took his stand against what he called the "muster of the vultures." Despite Johns's lavish promises of road construction projects in key vote areas, Collins beat him 380,323 to 314,198 for the Democratic nomination...
Heavy Vote. The question on the ballot: "Shall P.U.D. No. i sell all its electrical transmission, distribution and associated properties to the Washington Water Power Co. for $2,905.000?" Both sides agreed that if the Washington Water Power Co. failed to muster 60% of the voters, it would sell its Stevens County holdings to the P.U.D...
...this is so, I will be truly regretful. President Eisenhower has proved to be the best that the Republicans have. It would be best for the nation and the Republicans, as well as the Democrats, for each party to go into the campaign with the best candidate each can muster...
Less devout Freudian psychologists may question whether Freud's maturity was as complete as Jones describes-and they can do so on the basis of Psychiatrist Jones's own evidence. There is no denying that Freud needed all the maturity he could muster in the first years of the 20th century. After years of obscurity, he became a world figure, denounced from pulpit and scientific platform alike as a menace to morality, a threat to religion and even to civilization itself...
...press releases. He once said that the recipe for success in Congress is to exhibit "the brashness of a sophomore . . . the perseverance of a bill collector." Last week, in the news vacuum that followed Congress' adjournment, Congressman Celler was exhibiting all the brashness and perseverance that he could muster...