Word: muster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Privately, the British do not dispute the desirability of having a totally anti-Communist government in Laos, but they seriously question whether such a government can muster the energy and determination to eliminate the Pathet...
President John Kennedy is likely to find that the old conservative coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats can muster enough votes in the Congress to keep him from marching toward the New Frontier very fast-and perhaps that is the way the voters intended it. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, How the Vote Broke...
President Kennedy will still have hefty Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, plus that skilled legislative maestro, Lyndon Johnson, to help out on Capitol Hill, but Kennedy is likely to find that the old conservative coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats can muster enough votes to keep him from marching toward the New Frontier very fast-and perhaps that is the way the voters intended...
...submission. Hammarskjold, cried Khrushchev, had tried to justify "the bloody crimes perpetrated against the Congolese people by the colonialists and their stooges. It is not proper for a man who has flouted elementary justice to hold such an important post as that of Secretary-General." Khrushchev demanded that Hammarskjold "muster up enough courage to resign...
...sank the super-battleship Yamato, sent out with a handful of destroyers as the only blue-water resistance that the imperial Japanese fleet could muster when the U.S. Navy came slamming up the island ladder to Okinawa on Easter Sunday 1945. So obviously sacrificial was Yamato's "last gasp" mission against Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Fifth Fleet that the great ship was given only enough fuel for a one-way trip from Japan. The battle for Okinawa, at the homeland's very door, was the death struggle of Japan, and its capture was the largest, longest...