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Word: mustering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next week the Danes will head for the polls to elect their second Folketing (Parliament) in 13 months to decide how much welfare and inflation they will tolerate. The right-of-center minority government of Premier Poul Hartling, 60, called for elections last month after failing to muster a majority for a one-year freeze on wages, prices and profits. Although the bland, schoolmasterly Hartling has by no means attracted a large popular following, his Liberal Party (according to the latest polls) may win as much as 30% of the vote-compared with 12.3% in December 1973. If these projections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: A Growing Dissatisfaction | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...that would be the last time that the Elis would hit paydirt as the secret to the Crimson win was the defense. Yale could only muster 34 yards rushing in 34 attempts, and the Elis' passing attack was equally ineffective against a stubborn Harvard unit...

Author: By Francis T. Crimmins jr., | Title: Freshman Gridders Defeat Yale, 21-7; Baggot's Interception Snaps Deadlock | 11/23/1974 | See Source »

...Alison Clarkson's production of the play, is that both protagonists are right. Antigone, the embodiment of the heroic will, hurtles towards death with a barely understood drive to express her personal freedom, while Creon is the human voice of reason assailing her with all the logic he can muster...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: To Be Is to Die | 11/16/1974 | See Source »

...program--when the players would be most tired--introduced further complications, yet the occasional ensemble problems, rushed tempi and brass bloopers only partially detracted from the pleasure of hearing this symphony performed live, with conductor James Yannatos' energetic tempi and the big, full sound that the HRO can always muster...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: HRO In A Grand Style | 11/13/1974 | See Source »

...give due weight to the difficult political situation faced by the Justices. The President had hinted that he might ignore a court decision, especially if it were not "definitive." Whatever Nixon meant, he put real pressure on the Justices to file a unanimous opinion in an effort to muster all the court's prestige for a possible confrontation with a recalcitrant President. Inevitably, the opinion "suffers intellectually from the fact of that unanimity," which was "achieved at some cost to a fuller examination of the issues," said Duke's William Van Alstyne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Court Gets a C | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

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