Word: mustering
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...stark contrast to the success of the Big Red bombers, the Crimson was unable to establish any rhythm in its offense, particularly with its perimeter shooting. A night after drilling 10 three-pointers on 21 attempts against Columbia, Harvard could only muster six long-distance buckets in 28 attempts (21 percent...
...notoriously hermetic state. Past cases of violence such as the 1997 shootings and a spate of bombings in Vientiane in 2000 have never been solved. Typically, authorities blame minority Hmong rebels opposed to the government, whether or not proof exists. This time, however, if the government and police muster up the will, they could make a stronger case. Survivors say the attackers looked Hmong and spoke the Hmong language. And one military officer claims the killers left a calling card lying on the European woman's corpse...
...seems like a twisted sort of irony that out of a course catalog 910 pages long I am trying to choose haphazardly between four classes—one of which I have to muster up some measure of enthusiasm for. And although this semester I am finally able to venture beyond the History and English departments into the unexplored territories of Religion or History of Art or VES, I’m stuck instead rounding out the last of eight approaches to knowledge—approached, yes, attained...
Senior Elliott Prasse-Freeman impressed by scoring 20 first-half points, but the entire Harvard team couldn’t muster much more than that in the second frame, suffering its fifth consecutive defeat to Yale, 73-68, Saturday evening...
Nowhere more than in Israel does the old anarchist aphorism hold true: No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in. That's because the Jewish State's proportional-representation democracy awards a parliamentary seat to any party able to muster a measly 1.5 percent of the popular vote, and that combined with the increasing "tribalization" of its electorate has made it an iron rule of Israeli politics that no party ever wins a simple majority. Instead, the leader of the party that wins the most seats then faces weeks of horse-trading with a plethora of small...