Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this case, both political impotence and the importance of unspoken principles appear to be the decisive factors. The fear of political failure seized the CLC and made the possibility the reality. Clearly unable to muster sufficient strength to force its way with the government, the CLC preferred to remain aloof and not dirty its hands. But behind this fear, Bauer's comments suggest that the CLC used the postal confrontation to discipline its own ranks, and to further centralize the labor movement under its direction...
...Herald, the Class of 1924, showed up dressed in Bavarian costume, right down to the Tyrolean hats. The Boston Herald reported that "because the doctor had traveled 3,000 miles there was a Harvard version of the goose step, executed with as much snap as unsteady feet could muster ....An Americanized approximation of the Nazi salute replaced the hand shake...
...search up and down Soldiers Field and find few athletes as smooth or gifted as George Hughes, Gene Purdy or Jack Hughes. You can attend scores of practices, and you will never find the devotion that Coach Billy Cleary seems to muster yearly. You can walk away from a Yale football game, revelling in the size of the crowd and All That Tradition, and know full well it's nothing like The Beanpot...
MOUNTAINS are impervious and brutal without bias. They don't know who "conquers" them, not can they care. Which isn't to say that we shouldn't. On the contrary, mountain climbers deserve all the respect we can muster. The women who climbed Annapurna accomplished the incredible, not because they were women but because they were excellent mountaineers. After all, Annapurna isn't just another New England foothill...
...much-beloved predecessor. Chief among these are intelligence and taste. The series is as handsomely produced, the Edwardian settings and costumes as lush and authentic, as any devotee of 165 Eaton Place could possibly wish. But Louisa Leyton, the heroine of The Duchess of Duke Street, would never pass muster with Hudson or Mrs. Bridges. She is impertinent, aggressive, and, worst of all, neither keeps her peace nor knows her place...