Word: mustering
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...suspected of taking part in the militia's sectarian killings in Baghdad. And in southern Iraq, where al-Sadr is powerful, infiltration of U.S.-trained Iraqi units is common. But even the wariest Americans have trouble believing that Iraqis who look them in the face each day could muster the audacity to try to kill them...
...districts' plans were too crude - Seattle had only two categories: white and non-white - and too ambiguous to pass that test, Kennedy wrote. And because he supplied the fifth vote, he speaks for the court on the narrow point that a plan accounting for race might still pass constitutional muster...
...Joined by Justice Samuel Alito, Roberts says the organization's ads could reasonably be seen as opposing the practice of filibustering, rather than the candidacy of Feingold, so they therefore past constitutional muster. (Wisconsin Right to Life won't use the old ads, obviously, but at least now it knows what it can say in new ones.) It's only when an ad is "susceptible of no reasonable interpretation other than as an appeal to vote for or against a specific candidate" that McCain-Feingold kicks in, Roberts says...
While the varsity eight could only muster a fourth-place IRA finish, the Radcliffe novice eight found nothing but success...
...bargain: a short-sleeve, scoop-neck black shirt for $7.50. It probably retailed for $25 not three months ago. "That's a good, basic summer shirt," says Stevenson approvingly when I show her my purchase. I leave the store with a smile, pleased that my choice has passed muster with a pro. But for $7.50, it really doesn't matter. At this price, there are no fashion victims...