Word: muster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would then be open for the House to find that Powell is not an inhabitant of New York State, or to admit and then expel him. Regardless of the justice of such action, Powell would have no recourse to the courts; but it would be harder to muster the required majority in the House for such a decision...
...name that Gell-Mann borrowed from a line in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: "-Three quarks for Muster Mark...
...stationed at the Army's main pilot-training center, Fort Rucker, I am one of those Army chopper jockeys feeling the "pilot pinch" [April 14] -in the paycheck. The Army can afford up to $245-a-month hazardous-duty pay for commissioned officers, but the maximum it can muster for its growing corps of warrant-officer pilots is $165 a month. My present hazardous-duty pay as a chief warrant is a whopping $115, compared with the $180 a captain with equal time in service would draw flying the same aircraft on the same mission with equal responsibilities...
Becoming Herself. By "garbage," Hazlewood meant pain, heartbreak, worldliness. He carted it out of her, distilled it into a recording of his mildly rocking These Boots Are Made for Walking, which Nancy sang with all the cynical bite she could muster. Boots sold nearly 4,000,000 copies, and Nancy, outfitting herself with 250 pairs of boots, went stomping around the world on a promotional junket...
...doors to Negroes and, characteristically, disdained any praise as a civil rights advocate. It was only "bread-and-butter" common sense to encourage Negro members, he explained, because otherwise they would become strikebreakers. He recruited not only truckers for his union but every other worker he could muster, from aircraft workers to hatcheck girls. So large was his union that a nationwide Teamsters' strike could paralyze the U.S. economy, and Hoffa lost no chance to brag about such power...