Word: muster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Duggan's Lady for Ransom is told in the first person by an 11th century soldier-turned-monk who never raises his voice. In a Byzantine Empire setting in which rape and pillage were as common as piety, Author Duggan does not muster enough sex-and-sadism scenes to outfit a single chapter of many historicals. He simply tells a fine story full of color and action, informed with a sense of history as pervasive as it is unobtrusive. Professors trying to explain how the Turks were able to wallop the Christian armies of Byzantium could do much worse...
...later, Elizabeth noncommittally advised the island's legislators to "build on the principles of parliamentary government." The royal couple had driven 120 miles, in blistering heat, across the island to Kingston, pausing along the way for a quick dip in the Caribbean. Visibly wilted, the Queen could muster few smiles during a late reception at King's House, mansion of the island governor, Sir Hugh Foot, next day made by Elizabeth a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. After three days, embarking for the Panama Canal Zone on the 15,902-ton liner Gothic, the Queen...
Serving as a Communist punching-bag in the Far East, Indo-China has long been a target for a vitiating guerilla war. For seven years the French army in Indo-China has withstood the Communist while vainly trying to muster enough native support to drive them out. Only a promise of complete independence for Indo-China can rally nationalist support, for the persistent French colonialism which precipitated the war still discourages the Indo-Chinese from resisting the Communists' guerilla attacks...
This was the table of operations: call a general strike, muster the mob in the labyrinthine municipal bazaar, then fight through central Teheran to Majlis Square, where the leaders would emerge and take charge. If all went well, the Black Spiders would incite army units to defect, the Reds would break out hidden stores of rifles and bazookas, and the general strike would turn into a revolution...
Leverett, handicapped by the loss of star fullback John Bagdasarian, could muster no sustained drive until the final period surge. Guard Pete Pratt intercepted a Yale pass on the Bunny 13, and ran back to the 20 to open the threat...