Word: musters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O.'s United Furniture Workers of America were in an uproar. Hassock-shaped Morris Muster, overstuffed (215 lbs.) U.F.W.A. president, had quit in disgust after nine years in the union. Two days later a Southern district president followed him out. Said Muster, 20,000 members were in open revolt. Their reason: U.F.W.A. had been taken over by its Communist faction; the new executive board was dominated by Stalinists...
From This Day Forward, at the University. Intelligent enough to pass muster even by a Harvard...
...weeks before Corregidor fell, 25 Aggies (led by Major General George Moore, '08) met on the Rock and answered "here" for their dead classmates. Three years later, on 1945-8 Muster Day, the survivors gathered on Corregidor with Japanese snipers still about; of the original 25, ten were dead, three missing. The living spoke up for their absent comrades, reported all present. Other musters were held in Africa and Europe...
Last week, on San Jacinto Day (the anniversary of Texas' independence), Aggies the world over held their first postwar muster. Wherever two or more met, they called the names of classmates who had died. But on the Texas A & M campus itself, where 10,000 mustered, the dead were so many (696 in World War II) that the list was abridged. The names of the four dead Medal of Honor winners were called. In strained, choked voices, four Aggies answered, "Here...
...Imperatives. What would Baruch suggest? In his credo there was little new, but he stated it with a categorical force and sincerity which few men in the U.S. could muster...