Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the transgressions of others, said Estabrook, might well take a good look at their own: "Recently, the press became very exercised about morality when Charles Van Doren put on his show of contrition. But our indignation would be better founded, and more credible, if we also managed to muster a few olfactory shudders about the garbage in our own backyard. Better yet, we might even try to clean...
...Hollywood Democrats nodded solemnly. As he introduced Campaigner Kennedy, California's Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown was attuned to the issue. Asked he: "Shall we allow a chromium-plated materialism to be the principal apparent goal of our national life; or do we not have a responsibility to muster a new national conscience, a new sense of public purpose in the face of the challenge by the Soviets...
...very easy to come by. Thus those who want to see "great art" and have "universal experiences" will enjoy Pather Panchali no end. Those who wish to be entertained, however, should be warned that Pather Panchali, while often beautiful, may require more patience than they are willing to muster...
Seven leading Latin American nations -Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Panama, Ecuador-cold-shouldered the U.S. last week to vote for U.S.S.R.-backed Poland instead of U.S.-backed Turkey to fill a U.N. Security Council seat. The failure to muster a two-thirds vote resulted in a deadlock and pushed decision on the issue into this week...
...heart of Hong Kong, stands a handsome new eight-story building, with its grilled entrance locked round the clock. Not even the postman with registered mail gets past the portal guards unquestioned. The 40 inmates who work, eat, sleep, exercise and even procreate inside cannot leave without passing the muster of the sentinels. The roof bristles with six radio antennas, attentively tuned to Peking. This is the Hong Kong bureau of Hsinhua, or New China News Agency-the key link in the communications chain that is the West's only steady source of news from Communist China...