Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...States aid to China, according to Kuo, also benefits the Americas in that it helps to remove the Japanese threat from its western bases and shores. Effective Chinese aid with modern equipment would force Japan to concentrate its efforts in China, weakening the forces it would be able to muster against the United States...
Tiny Freyberg and his tiny force will have need of all the courage they can muster in Crete. The Germans seem to be committed to blasting and Blitzing the island. Suda Bay, a magnificent natural harbor, is the last important British operating base among the islands of the eastern Mediterranean, and the long island lies across the mouth of the Aegean. Last week, as expected, the Axis continued its process of occupying Aegean islands, definitely closed the Aegean to the British...
Eliot seems to have the race all to itself in the second heat of the afternoon since the Bunnies and Bell Boys are both weak and Dudley was unable to muster a crew. As it is, Eliot has both its first and second eights in the race, and it is now a toss-up to see which boat crosses the line first. Yesterday the first boat came in behind the second shell four times...
Leverett's ten runs in the second inning and Dunster's eight in the seventh were attributed to shaky support. Lowell won from Winthrop by default when the Puritans failed to muster a team...
Though the U. S. had passed the Lend-Lease Act only 15 days before, the promise of all the aid the U. S. could muster had not been enough to hold Yugoslavia as a bastion for freedom. Or had it? In Belgrade a clock struck midnight...