Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After ten minutes he could no longer muster the strength to hold on. His breathing became labored, and his heart was beating at a noticeably slower rate. The color of his skin, starting at his feet, began to lighten as it became starved for oxygen and blood. We watched death move upward in neat, horribly incremental stages. After 45 minutes, it embraced all of him, and it was over...
With all the Eagle offensive players back on defense, B.C. was able to play both a zone and a man-to-man defense simultaneously against the potent Crimson offense. But the Eagles were unable to muster even the semblance of an offensive threat. Harvard, on the other hand, had no problem scoring despite all the Eagles' efforts...
Funk spends all day and all evening hanging around the mall. The patriarch of the rat community, he boasts that he "has been her through about three generations of mall rats." Apparently pleasant though somewhat passive, he understands his situation, but can't muster up enough energy to do anything about it, saying, "I'm unemployed and I really don't have anything else to do or anywhere else to go, because of my lifestyle...
...Explorers, who may have been looking ahead to their conference championship meet next weekend, could not muster enough muscle to pose a serious challenge to Harvard. The aquamen grabbed nine of 13 first-place finishes in the meet...
Academic involvement in military, government, and corporate research continues. But without the other stimuli of the 1960s, students are far less likely to muster significant opposition to the way their schools operate. The pressure that foster pervasive careerism only further decrease the chances that students will spend much time on issues they can easily dismiss as "the way things...