Word: muster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOUTH VIET NAM, the Communist guerrillas have doubled their strength in the past six months and seem able to muster a battalion-sized force at any point they choose, strike with it, and be gone before the road-bound army of President Ngo Dinh Diem can retaliate. Washington expects at any time a Communist announcement that the western plateau of South Viet Nam, next to the Laos border, is "liberated territory," complete with a "capital'' and a Communist government. Should it happen, Washington suggested last week, the U.S. will dispatch regimental combat teams to help train the South...
...company that sells its stock to the public. One such call turned up, four months in advance, the invaluable news that A. T. & T. was planning a stock split. Standard & Poor's man got his scoop by cannily giving A. T. & T. executives all the reasons he could muster against a split, thus luring them into replying...
Goldberg will need all the knowledge and guts he can muster-for organized labor is in trouble. The great labor surge of the 1930s and '40s and '50s has slowed to a standstill. Although the total U.S. work force has risen by 5,000,000 since 1955-A.F.L.-C.I.O. membership (excluding expelled unions) has dropped from 13,500,000 to 13,300,000. Such statistics tell only a small part of the story. With the basic rights of labor firmly secured by law, and after major postwar breakthroughs in the field of pensions, cost-of-living escalators, supplemental...
...chances rested on a small turnout, in which his organization support might be decisive. More than 743,000 voters, a record for a Democratic primary in New York City, swarmed to the polls. They swamped the organization: Charley Buckley's once-mighty Bronx machine was able to muster only 46,000 Levitt votes against 75,000 for Wagner; in Joe Sharkey's Brooklyn, Levitt got 103,000 against Wagner's 136,000. Even in Harlem, where Preacher-Politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whose word is usually accepted as gospel, was supporting Levitt, Wagner won handily...
...locker room," said Maxwell, whose father was a Methodist gospel singer. He fired an order to Book Editor Robert Cromie. Henceforth, said Maxwell, the Trib's bestseller list, which is based on sales reports from bookstores, will include only books that pass Maxwell's muster...