Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until yesterday, political gurus were yawning about Tuesday's general election. Frank Doyle, Flynn's campaign manager, could muster only this response, "How can you say it has been boring, with eight public media forums and twenty neighborhood forums...
...took Reagan four days after last Monday's historic collapse on Wall Street to speak out in public on the steps he would take to deal with the crisis. While investors and politicians verged on panic and waited to hear from him, Reagan was only able to muster a Hoover-like declaration that the "underlying economy remains sound...
...bathes the men in the most flattering of lights and colors, and thus ends up with homosexual love scenes that look completely natural if not especially erotic. While these moments seem perfectly frank--especially with more of the Room With A View-type naturalistic nudity--the actors also never muster any impressive degree of passion...
Nonetheless, the week's events strengthened the once lonely American military position in the Persian Gulf. Although the bloodshed led to renewed efforts in Congress to invoke the 1973 War Powers Resolution, the incident suggested that the U.S. finally seems able to muster both the will and the means to protect shipping against primitive but effective mining. That was an improvement from the summer days when American sailors could only stand futile watch with rifles as a defense against mines. Since the Bridgeton debacle, the U.S. has safely escorted nine U.S.-reflagged tanker convoys past Iranian missile batteries...
Tour of Duty, CBS's ambitious Viet Nam series, should have been smarter and better timed. This cleaned-up-for-TV look at an American platoon in 1967 might have just passed muster a couple of years ago, before the recent surge of Hollywood interest in Viet Nam. After Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, it just won't do. When a battle-hardened sergeant (Terence Knox) grills a group of new recruits in search of "winners, survivors" for his platoon, he rules out marijuana users right away: "If you're smokin' dope and gettin' high, you're not listenin...