Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan had been simple. The Japanese admirals proposed to launch the heaviest air blow they could muster against the U.S. ships off Okinawa, perhaps sink a few. The next day the blow would be repeated, in hopes that the jittery fleet would scatter. Into the melee the fastest, heaviest ships Japan possessed would be sent to smash more vessels, then run for home again. It was a good enough plan, but it did not work...
...establishing the security which js M.G.'s chief job. Thanks to the experience of Aachen, M.G. moved fast and seemed to know what it was doing. An ex-police chief removed by the Nazis in 1933 was found and reinstated, as were 123 cops who passed the M.G. muster. As each resident was registered and fingerprinted, he got a ration card. With the assistance of 63 ex-telephone-company employes, telephone service was partially restored...
...reasoning behind this news was clear enough. To shake off the old lethargy and face the growing challenge for world air routes, it was obviously necessary for the British Government to expand its monopoly to include all the experience, equipment and money its private transportation industry could muster - even though some British shippers and independent airlines bellowed for free competition...
...Willard L. Sperry, chairman of the Board of Preachers, followed up his annual report by saying yesterday that churches, as well as other institutions such as colleges and schools, must meet the returning veteran three-fourths of the way. "It will take all the imagination and sympathy we can muster," he said, "to cope properly with their problems...
...Point. The point that Miss Mac liked most to make was that her WAVES had released more than 70,000 men for combat, which was the same as adding 70,000 men to the Navy's muster...