Word: muster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story on General Johnson is a welcome change from the articles I have read about our misunderstood specimens of manhood who manage to muster up enough energy to hold up placards and march. As I read the grim reminder of Bataan and the death march, I couldn't help comparing those soldiers with our protest marchers, many of whom would be wasting a match to burn their draft cards, because they would be either physically or mentally unfit to serve in the armed forces. We who are mothers of young sons should add this article to their required...
...R.O.T.C. instructor by several universities. So Johnson went back to class himself, toured the Army's ground force schools and spent a year at Fort Leavenworth's Command and General Staff College. Then, in 1950, came Korea-and overnight the Army needed every combat officer it could muster...
...hoped to muster enough supporters to block the admission of Red China to the United Nations by a simple majority when that perennial issue came up for a vote last week. But when the General Assembly's big new indicator board flashed the final results, the U.S. had to settle for a tie-47 nations for seating Red China, 47 against, and 20 abstentions...
...unlimited opportunity for the diligent. We therefore attracted people with these characteristics. Today we are known as the most excellent of lands to be incapacitated or poor in. The concept ot America as a land of bottomless public treasuries spewing money into the pockets of all who can muster enough energy to jet over attracts only those who wish to exploit our misguided generosity...
...repeal of the Taft-Hartley "right to work" clause, anathema to labor because it allows individual states to outlaw the union shop. Nevertheless, Dirksen's filibuster, powered by a hard-core coalition of some 38 Republicans and southern Democrats, seemed insurmountable, for the Administration could not possibly muster the two-thirds majority (67 votes) to invoke cloture. So, unable to stop the show and concerned that it might prove too arduous for elderly Senators, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield ruled out the seriocomic, all-day-all-night marathons of filibusters past. "The opposition to repeal is such, and the rules...