Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote taken 18 months ago, the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association took no formal position on the overhead pass because no majority would either endorse or oppose the bridge. University officials decided to postpone construction until Harvard can muster wider community support for the proposal...
...military operation began with the muster of several thousand troops in Mexico City's Zocalo. About 600 motorcycle troopers, able to dodge debris on otherwise closed streets, fanned out for a quick survey of the extent of the catastrophe. The army also made available 500 trucks to transport rescue workers from one site to another. Patrolling troops warned residents against lighting matches or smoking in neighborhoods where gas lines had ruptured. Water and food supplies appeared adequate, although distribution was far from normal. Even so, many poor residents began filling plastic pails with water as a precaution against possible shortages...
...shellfish cooked in batter and dipped in a tangy onion sauce. To our disappointment, however, crabmeat was substituted for the traditional crawfish tails. The fish gumbo, a soup thick with seafood and orzo, also satisfies. The shrimp remoulade--cold shrimp in an unconventional hot mustard sauce--would pass muster if it included more shrimp and less lettuce...
...once it seems Madison Avenue was right: hicks are a sturdy and noble breed, worthy of all the attention and glamorization and distortion we big city journalists can muster...
...give this interview. That reason is that time is passing, and it might be too late. The train might have already left the station. If we are realists--and we hope we all are, we all want to live, none of us wants to be destroyed --then we must muster the political will and the wisdom and stop this process, and begin the process of eliminating weaponry, and the process of improving, invigorating relations between the Soviet Union...