Word: musters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down the land echoing or outdoing him. William Harrison Fetridge, managing editor of The Republican, thought the welkin was ringing too loudly, wrote: "The time has come to talk plainly to a lot of Republicans. . . . Quiet, thoughtful, reasonable talk will win more votes than all the bombast you can muster." New York's Congressman Bruce Barton, candidate for the U. S. Senate, nailed a thesis on Mr. Roosevelt's front door charging the President with most of the political crimes in the calendar. Suggesting that Roosevelt planned a Hitlerized U. S., he accused the President of secretly planning...
...politics, or because Wendell Willkie had missed with some haymaker rights & lefts. (Nobody denied he was good at infighting.) Now he knew better what it meant to "meet the champ." For daily Franklin Roosevelt threw a bigger punch in the form of action as President, than Wendell Willkie could muster in the form of argument as Candidate...
Even more dramatic was the tale of twelve-year-old Elizabeth Mary Cummings: "When I got to the lifeboat muster station the boat was gone. It smashed as it struck the water with some men, women and children in it and I could see the people struggling in the water. . . . We got into another lifeboat, but there was a terrible crowd aboard. The sea was very stormy and waves were coming over our lifeboat, and I was certain that I would die. . . . Suddenly one big wave, and the lifeboat tumbled over. I never swam in my life...
...barrage was a measure of desperation. Such heavy fire could not be long maintained. The average anti-aircraft gun of the 3.7-and 4.5-inch types used by Britain can fire about 300 rounds, then it must be dismantled and its liner shrunk, removed, replaced. London could not possibly muster more than 5,000 antiaircraft guns (including machine guns), and if the 400,000 rounds claimed in one night were actually fired, the Tommies were shooting the guts out of their guns. Neutral observers thought the slackening of German attack in the face of this barrage was coincidence...
...Netherlands East Indies Squadron consists of close to 100 surface craft, and although the waters are so clear that submarines might as well be in fishbowls except at night, there are over 18 modern submarines based on Surabaya. If the Japanese should attempt a landing, the Dutch can muster some 360 planes and a moderately well-trained army of 80,000 (principally for the defense of Java) with G. H. Q. at Bandung...