Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the cracks that must be plugged as the nation tries to keep warm are in the structure of the society itself. The poor and the old living on fixed incomes can muster no defense against rising heating bills. Stella Falco, 74, a white-haired widow who lives in a $50-a-month tenement in Providence, is tired and bitter. After five decades of working in textile mills, she receives $3,384 a year from Social Security as well as a small pension. A quarter of her income will go for heat; price increases mean a thinning...
...same time, weaknesses in breaststroke showed up as strong as ever, with the strongest finisher any Crimson swimmer could muster being Gwen Knapp's third place finishes in both...
...easy to say that the Iranians need a scapegoat and the regime wants to muster patriotic support. You are wrong through and through. What this nation has suffered at the hands of the Shah is no less serious than what the Jews suffered at the hands of the Nazis...
...terrible cycle of family tragedies shattered whatever strength Joan could muster: two brothers-in-law assassinated, her husband's near fatal plane crash, Chappaquiddick, which was followed a month later by a third miscarriage, then her son's leg amputation for cancer at twelve. She attempted a succession of cures: reviving a music career that had faltered, then psychiatrists, alcoholism sanitariums, even megavitamin therapy...
Faculty and graduate students, as well as outside professionals, have volunteered to speak and answer questions at the conference. Although organizers expect over 500 people, Star said, its approach will be as individual as we can muster...