Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Play bogged down after the score, and neither team was able to gain an advantage. A few times Leverett got the ball and seemed to be getting started as fullback and Captain Dick Jayson squirmed through the Deacen defense for a few large gains. But the Bunnies couldn't muster the necessary push in the pinches and were forced to punt...
Snarling at Russia's flanks, two jackals last week tried to muster courage to spring for the kill. Big Russia was bleeding from wounds made by Nazi fangs, but there was enough fight in the old bear to frighten Japan and Bulgaria. Benito Mussolini, who has got used to being called a jackal, must have grinned at their behavior...
...Training Plan in Canada, which so far has turned out 50,000 partly-trained pilots, was now up to original quotas, but those quotas had been outdated because of increased plane production. Besides, the R.A.F. was appallingly weak to start with: at the war's start it could muster only 124 first-line squadrons (about 1,500 planes). It was now almost three times as strong (about 4,200 first-line planes), but had a very long way to go in order definitely to overhaul the Luftwaffe (six air fleets of 1,700 operative planes each, before the Russian...
Month ago, when the Nazis were sprinting across Libya toward Egypt and the British needed every man they could muster from East Africa, Lieut. General Alan Gordan Cunningham offered the Duke of Aosta peace terms. The Duke was in such a hopeless military position that he must have eyed the terms wistfully, even though accepting them would have meant giving up his much-loved gaudy uniforms; but he had strict orders not to give in-having lost Ethiopia, he might as well detain as many British as possible as long as possible...
...London divulged the terms in detail, but one of them was said to be certain: the Duke of Aosta would have to surrender not only his fancy uniforms but also his own fancy person. For the British the capitulation was timely, because they still needed every man they could muster...