Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russian-made North Korean artillery and mortars also had the edge on the South Koreans' U.S.-made weapons. This was not because the Red weapons were better, but because they were bigger. Against the Reds' 120-mm. mortars and howitzers, the biggest pieces the South Koreans could muster were the U.S. 81-mm. mortars and 105-mm. howitzers...
...last month's North Carolina Democratic primary bantam Fair Dealer Frank Graham had led him by 53,383 votes. But since Graham did not get a clear majority in a four-way race, Willis Smith was entitled to a runoff. Smith didn't know whether he could muster enough money and votes. At the last minute, he decided...
...Hansen could muster only about a dozen Hartley men to serve as "guerrillas," plus a few individual Guardsmen from neighboring towns. As the raiders rolled into town in a drizzling rain, the streets were almost deserted. The chief of police was arrested, and "executed" out behind Foley's furniture store. Sheriff Ed Lemkull was playfully roughed up (see cut). Red flags were hung all over the main street and road blocks established. One oldster complained bitterly about standing in line for a permit to buy each glass of beer. "That's the severity of it, Al," explained...
...correspondents (now five) still permitted to do business in Moscow, including the Times's own Harrison Salisbury (who last week was back in the U.S. for a brief Minnesota vacation). Said the Times: "When [the Moscow correspondent] has written his dispatch, with the best accuracy he can muster, in that blacked-out Russian world, his dispatch must go to the censor. And often the censor then strikes out arbitrarily half of what was originally a balanced report-thereby producing, on his own account, a very definite 'distortion' of the news." The Times regretfully admitted that...
Against Smith's conservative and industrial support, Graham could muster the bulk of North Carolina's labor and Negro vote. The one worry of Graham's supporters was that overactive backing, from either the C.I.O. or the Negro organizations would raise the old Southern rallying cry of outside interference. With the warning of Florida fresh in mind, the order went out to them: keep under wraps until primary...