Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still a crashing Allied victory in Italy. Already General Harold R.L.G. Alexander's armies had cut down the German forces by 80,000 to 100,000 dead, wounded and captured. Even last week when the enemy threw in all the mines, road blocks, and mobile artillery he could muster, when he had committed eight and a half of his twelve divisions in Italy, the Allies still made gains...
...Famine. Whatever Japan's goal, she put a lot of muscle behind her drive: perhaps two full divisions (30,000 men), one of them headed by roly-poly, arrogant Lieut. General Seiichi Kita, the mastermind of Japanese political puppetry in North China. Against this force the Chinese could muster a large but poorly armed, undertrained army under a good general, burly Veteran...
...duty: For Hagg, none other . . . sources near the new muster-master intimate he will be shovin' off for the mine sweeping racket again . . . Understand, that's purely tentative, old man . . . Another possible change in the regimental setup, they say, would send O'Connor to Fisher's Island on probationary status . . . Sounds fantastic, of course, but it's fannin' the breeze anyway . . . I didn't believe it myself . . . of course, though you can ask some of the guys in the first platoon; they started it . . . And, confidentially, I think that's a lot of bull about O'Connor slapping Hansen...
Loose stuff: Congratulations to those hitting the ALNAV . . . Lt. (jg) Kemp entered into the spirit of the thing by visiting Section B's third afternoon class . . . while on that subject, we hear that Coduto is a fast man in a muster; O'Connor thinks the boy has possibilities...
Matter of Life or Death. It had been a miserable beginning. In 1938 the U.S. stood seventh among the nations of the world in military aircraft, had facilities for training fewer than 2,400 Army pilots a year. The U.S. could muster only 1,600 planes, about 1,300 officers and 18,000 men. During the first three years of the A.A.F.'s slow growth there was apathy among the public, suspicion in Congress...