Word: muster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Souls elects distinguished Fellows from outside, such as T. E. Lawrence, who wrote most of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom under All Souls' auspices. But most Fellows are "straight gate" entrants, culled from Oxford's most brilliant new graduates. Each year only one or two pass muster, and in some years, none do. Each candidate submits two papers on his specialty, two more on such matters as politics and literature, a translation paper, and another on a one-word topic such as faith or loyalty...
Injuries to Gil Leaf, Dave Bohn, and Gil Bamford combined with excessive heat to put the Crimson at less than full strength, but Dartmouth could muster little more than spirit and a top-flight defenseman named Pete Sly. Sly showed great improvement over last year, containing injured Crimson playmaker Grady Watts to one goal and one assist...
...member countries to take "such action as is open" to them against South Africa. It was nearly worse. A proposal to launch a worldwide economic and diplomatic boycott against Verwoerd's government was voted by a majority of the Assembly's Special Political Committee, but failed to muster the necessary two-thirds vote in the Assembly itself...
...count about 3,300,000 common shares held by Chairman Allan P. Kirby and 2,600,000 by the Murchison Brothers. Decision on who will control the giant holding company that controls the New York Central and $3 billion in investment funds will go to side that can muster most proxies, at the May 1 annual meeting, from the remaining shares held by other stockholders...
ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 14--Navy beat the Harvard baseball team 5-2 here today, built it really shouldn't have happened. The Midshipmen could muster but one solid hit off starter Al Yarbro. Five scratch safeties and six errors by the Crimson defense gave Navy the game...