Word: mustering
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Then there's the most baffling advice of all: Talk to it, in a calm, firm voice, of course. Supposing I could muster anything more impressive than a hoarse squeak, what exactly would I talk to it about? No one has ever suggested any topics of mutual interest to a middle-aged urban female and a 600-lb. free-ranging ursid. The Endangered Species Act, perhaps, and how the Fish and Wildlife Service arbitrarily erased about 4,000 species from the protected list last February? "Uh, I know I forgot to send in my Sierra Club dues, but, believe...
...that Pat's husband Ed (Erik Amblad) can't seem to muster up genuinely powerful emotions. In a play running at normal speed, he's still stuck moving in 33 RPM. The only real life he shows in all of the first act appears when Pat gives him an overzealous shoulder massage, making him bounce up and down on the couch during his monotonous monologue. What a pity that the life he possesses in this scene is drawn entirely from another person's action...
That gut-wrenching loss seemed to be the back-breaker for the Crimson. The following week, Harvard suffered an unexpected loss at the hands of Patriot League opponent Holy Cross, and the three subsequent games saw a struggling Harvard offense muster only 10 points. By the time Penn came to town, the Crimson seemed too frustrated and too tired to hold the Quakers in check...
Almost. Harvard had a strong regular season, going 8-2 and 6-1 in the Ivy League, but could only muster a third-place finish at Easterns...
...Black and White then hoped to salvage some of its season at Sprints, but could only muster a fifth-place finish at the Petite Level Final, the second-tier race. Radcliffe had originally hoped to make the Grand Level Finals, but it wasn...