Word: mustered
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Despite tallying four more times to tie the score at 8-8, Harvard could muster only three points the rest of the opening set, and the Jumbos triumphed...
...wouldn't have that much of a problem with this if these poor individuals would research their vocabularies a little more carefully. Cursing effectively and economically requires a lot of skill and subtlety, more than these people can muster. The most common mistake is thinking that one word is just as good as another, or that bigger is better. This leads to such improbable insults as "Shit off!" or "Hell you, assbutt...
...punctilious narrative style hardly jibes with his claims to be a doomed romantic hero. Thinking back on the girl in Chattanooga, he remarks, "Surely no life was ever so quickly and completely transformed by love as mine was." Yet his only visible passion is self-absorption. He cannot even muster much interest in Alex Mercer, "my closest friend there in Memphis." He admits several times his inability to remember just how many children Alex and his wife possess...
Only after the media began scrutinizing Harvard's electioneering did it become public that Bok authorized the letter. At a time when the University will need all the imagination it can muster to remain a leading player in an increasingly competitive academic marketplace, Harvard is no more anxious to respect the views of students or concerned outsiders...
...consistent paternalism of those who run Harvard appears colossally arrogant at a time when the University will need all the imagination it can muster to remain a leading player in an increasingly competitive academic marketplace...