Word: muster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with any claim to neutrality. Guzmán was known as an outspoken antiCommunist, served in Bosch's Administration as Minister of Agriculture. A few days before the Bundy mission to Santo Domingo, Guzmán was secretly flown to Washington for talks with U.S. officials, apparently passed muster, and was flown home again. On its flight to the Dominican Republic, the Bundy mission stopped in Puerto Rico and won Bosch's approval of Guzmán. Rebel Leader Caamaño also agreed to go along. But not Tony Imbert and his embattled loyalist junta...
...Robert Oppenheimer, for instance, is unquestionably accepted, but not necessarily Conservative Edward Teller. Members of other disciplines concede intellectual status only to the most creative and original scientists, relegating the rest into a vast limbo of mere technicians and experts. George Babbitt's sneering at longhairs could not muster anywhere near the savagery of one intellectual's proclaiming that another...
Frick showed no interest in justice or the strikers' proposals. He simply put in a call to the Piftkerton Agency, already notorious for its ability to muster indefinite numbers of strikebreaking mercenaries who were delighted to do battle for $5 a day. Frick swore to hold fast, "if it takes all summer and all winter, and all next summer and the next winter. I will never recognize the union, never, never...
...time had come to publicize and muster support for the cause. And this is where Bernays briskly rubs his hands, rolls up his sleeves, and jumps...
...most south Texas towns, Mexican Americans in Crystal City (pop. 10,000) outnumber Anglo-Americans roughly 4 to 1. But not until two years ago did they muster enough voting strength to elect their own people to local office. Then, a group called the Political Association of Spanish-Speaking Organizations (PASO) launched a get-out-the-vote drive, produced a winning slate of five Mexican American city councilmen. It was the first time that Anglos had not controlled the municipal administration, and it was hailed as a harbinger of change throughout south Texas politics...