Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...referendum in exceptional cases, where widespread feeling demands, or when a petition signed by 200 students requests it, on any proposal concerned with student affairs," Meeting on October 29, the council decided to abolish the students' right to the initiative because it feared that any "crackpot" proposal could muster 200 signatures and that it would be swarmed under with unreasonable requests for referenda. It argued that the council was theoretically a responsible group and could exercise "common sense" on matters of public debate. This point of view, many observers felt, developed from a fear of future "abolish the council" drives...
...went to her berth, "I sat drinking my milk and thinking about tier," writes Author Farrell. Readers will wish that he had thought longer, or that a sharper writer had done his writing for him. For while Dream Girl is built around a pretentious theme, Author Farrell can muster only nine undercooked stories to support it. His more familiar squalor tales and mass-and-class ruminations pad out the rest of the book, but they justify their intrusion only a couple of times. The Fastest Runner on Sixty-First Street (a sprinting champion who runs straight to his death during...
...thirds vote is required to put an ordinance into the records. The majority of members saw no possibility that the opposition could muster the necessary six votes...
...argued: "One may reasonably think it wiser in the long run to let an unhappy, bitter outcast vent his venom before any crowds he can muster . . . One may trust that his patent impotence will be a foil to anything he may propose. Indeed, it is a measure of the confidence of a society in its own stability that it suffers such fustian to go unchecked. [But] here we are faced with something very different"-i.e., the American Communists, who secretly conspire, conceal their membership, take orders from abroad...
Against this formidable Russian force, the West can muster little indeed. Western Germany has no troops; France might put three divisions in the field; Great Britain's strength in occupied Germany is now probably not more than two divisions. The U.S. has one understrength division and four or five housekeeping and constabulary regiments scattered from one end of its zone to the other. U.S. air strength is shockingly inadequate, consists of little more than two fighter groups and one bomber group. U.S. observers say that the ratio of Soviet to U.S. air strength is about...