Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jeremiah Denton of Alabama. "Even dogs have more protection than the unborn," said Hatch. But after two days of speeches in a largely empty Senate chamber, the ten-word Hatch amendment fell 18 votes short of the required two-thirds majority last week and failed by two votes to muster even a simple majority...
...MOST PART, these cases are not cut and dried, administrators can muster reasonable arguments for officially differing with students. But by making unnecessary and irrelevant comments and taking stubborn stands on trivial matters such as listing minority events, the administration hinders attempts at what could otherwise become meaningful dialogue. The only alternative quickly becomes demonstrations, marches, rallies and other timeworn methods of student protest...
Effectively using both a zone and man-to-man defense, the Minutemen shut down Harvard's big guns. DenHartog and Finn. With those All-Americans double-covered for much of the afternoon, the Crimson could muster little offense, especially in the first half...
However, the Crimson has been able to muster only runner-up finishes behind Princeton in the Ivies the past two years...
...WOULD be misguided to muster up much sympathy for Shields, who, when she does unpack her bags in Princeton, will undoubtedly manage both the People press corps and a flock of undergraduate humor editors with her customary photogenic aplomb. More pity is due Princeton and its otherwise august members of the admissions committee, who, in brushing up against the models and show biz and high-speed, high-paying gossip, have come away with the definite smudge of cheap newsprint on their lapels...