Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third factor in fighting ability is simple physical strength. Altogether Yugoslavia can muster about 30 trained divisions totaling perhaps 650,000 troops, fierce men all. These men have plenty of rifles, a considerable number of machine guns, field and pack artillery. They are beautifulty equipped, in short, to be hornets in the Serbian hills, to carry on the sort of warfare in which the Greeks had given the Axis its first trimming...
...stiff resistance against the heaviest odds. But if the Nazis also attacked through Yugoslavia's Vardar River Valley, west of the Struma. leading directly to Salonika, they could strike the Struma's defenders from the rear and probably crush any forces that Greece would be able to muster...
Balanced against Thomas' conclusion that "If Americans could muster nine-tenths of the bravery required in war, we could make democracy invincible," Professor Leach countered that "Hitler's threat of invasion or internal disruption must be removed in order that domestic problems be solved." Leach maintained that this must be done by aiding Great Britain to the limit...
Sleepily squirming into their warm flight jackets, the students straggle below for a muster. A quarter-mile run around the barracks gives them an eye-opener before they shave, make up their double-decker bunks, sit down to a hearty breakfast served up by corpulent civilian Concessionaire Moe Greenspan, better known as Moe the Greasepan, who loads their stomachs with 80 pounds of food a day, hears more complaints about the chow than a Congressman. By 7:45 they are pushing their yellow biplane trainers out of the hangars for the day's flying. It is still very, very...
...German air power, London experts thought General Marshall exaggerated the danger. Aeroplane's Peter Masefield doubted whether the Nazis could muster more than 19,000 planes for operations at one time. He further pointed out that the Nazi air strength is widely dispersed: Air Fleet One in eastern Germany, Air Fleet Two under Marshal Albert Kesselring operating in northern France and the Lowlands, Air Fleet Three under Marshal Hugo Sperrle, operating in western France from bases between Brest and the Spanish frontier, Air Fleet Five, under General Hans Jurgen Stumpff, operating in bases from The Netherlands...