Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Make no mistake," said Waite, "they will not fail to use gas when their need is great enough." He added, however, that America is ready for such attack and already has sufficient anti-gas equipment to stave off any but the most ferocious gas offenses which the Axis could muster...
...Lodge agreed to lay it aside, added, with sardonic significance: "The undersigned Senators declare that, if they had the opportunity, they would have voted for the resolution." The undersigned names added up to 37; it was the first clear warning to Woodrow Wilson that his pet treaty could not muster a two-thirds majority. Angrily Woodrow Wilson sailed off to Europe; in the resulting clash between a dogmatic President and the "Irreconcilables," the treaty and the League were lost...
...decades of a false peace and the impact of global war had changed at least some sections of Senate thinking. The resolution's sponsors, who had sweated over the draft of their document for several weeks and buttonholed many a Senator for his ideas on it, hoped to muster a two-thirds majority...
...eagerly slugging quarters into the telephone. He sure pays an awful lot to tell someone in Chicago that he loves her.... The great Tammany has crumbled! The one time omnipotent room is trying desperately to hold on. According to them they have one assistant squad leader, one muster sheet "collectorupper," and wehbring.... "Moonshine" Panky was quite surprised and chagrined upon finding out that he was giving blood and not getting it.... Attention Brother Rais! Free scholarships to the West Point of the South will be awarded to the best drilled Ensigns (jg) in the Company. wehbring also...
Divided into eleven episodes, Winter Soldiers treats of people heroic enough to die for cause, yet human enough to swerve and falter, muster only a last-minute courage. Badly in need of sharper dialogue and swifter movement, Winter Soldiers, for all its faults, outranks most of what Broadway now has to offer...