Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marvel. While Harvard fans displayed "Go For It. Crimson" signs and kept waiting for their squad to blow the lid off the Bruins' home gym, the Crimson seemed a bit listless after its victory at Yale the night before. But as tried as the squad appeared, they did muster the energy to keep Brown in the contest...
...more unfortunate results of the Reagan years is the growing deafness among Americans to the sound of the Presidential axe. Stunned by the harshness of the early Reagan budgets, the country has been unable to muster much opposition to successive plans, largely out of exhaustion. When the budget for fiscal years 1985 was released last week, attention focused on the ballooning government deficit and overlooked the guaranteed social inequality and demolished programs that can be expected from Administration policies...
...experts who appreciated the deficiencies of this year's hockey team, it must not have come as a total surprise that Canada upset the squad and Czechoslovakia trounced them. They were even unable to muster a victory over Norway...
...headquarters pointing with messianic fervor to a huge cross and boasting that he had won six of Grenada's last seven elections. U.S. officials concede that Washington would be highly embarrassed if democracy brought Sir Eric back to power. None of Gairy's political rivals, however, can muster much short-term confidence. Herbert Blaize, 65, leader of the Grenada National Party, maintains that "elections held too soon will not be a fair reflection of the will of the people." Chief Education Officer George Brizan, 41, is planning to form and lead the National Democratic Party, but its main...
...Louis does list what he believes are some concrete examples of current oppression. I would like to concentrate on an example he cites of the federal government's involvement in this oppression: the Reagan Administration's "attack" on affirmative action programs. If this policy is the best Louis can muster to support his assertion that the federal government is the chief oppressor of Black people, then I think we can safely conclude that, in this case as in so many others, Louis's appeals offer more to the emotions than the intellect...