Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours, behind closed doors, Lodge spelled out his plan. Under the present program for a 95-group Air Force, he said, the U.S. will be able to muster only one-third of the tactical aviation it would need to repel an invasion of Western Europe. The U.S., he argued, needs a minimum of 50 full tactical air groups for ground support, 38 interceptor groups for home defense, and 62 groups of long-range strategic bombers, plus fleets of heavy transports. Such an aerial armada would take three years to build, and cost a staggering $96 billion, more than the entire...
...Frogmen (20th Century-Fox), is a late addition to Hollywood's muster roll of World War II movies, but it turns out to be one of the most absorbing of the lot. The picture turns the trick in spite of a battleworn plot about a tough-minded commander (Richard Widmark), whose overzealous sense of duty alienates his men (Dana Andrews et al.) until the crisis of battle finally brings them together. Its secret weapon: the work of the Navy's underwater demolition teams, the swimmers who spearheaded U.S. amphibious invasions from Sicily to Okinawa...
...determined opposition, led by onetime cabinet Minister Thakin Ba Sein did what it could to muster votes. But it seemed certain that Premier Thakin Nu and his candidates would win. Said one local pundit: "The government has many defects and some fellows in it are darned mischievous, but what about opposition? Their history sheets don't give good accounts of them, so we will choose the lesser evil...
...system is aimed at essay writers who throw in all the information they can muster in the hope that some of it may be right. McKay hazarded the guess that if his plan proves successful it may soon become the rule in other courses as well...
...qualify, a student must be in the top third of his high-school senior class, take an aptitude test, then pass muster before a board of nine college deans and presidents (among them: Barnard's Dean Millicent Mclntosh, M.I.T.'s President James R. Killian Jr., North Carolina's President Gordon Gray). As for which of the private colleges will get the benefit of the new fund, Henry Ford had no idea: that is a matter that the students will decide for themselves...