Word: musters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper live within the walls of the Missouri State Prison at Jefferson City, where the Journal is printed by its inmate staff. The Journal's policy is to look for the silver lining; it reports the bleak news of prison life in the brightest voice it can muster, and it encourages prisoners to work toward rehabilitation. But most Journal readers share a common misery that goes untouched by such institutional cheer. Lately they have found a wry spokesman in the Journal's superb cartoonist, Prisoner 69652, Sammy Reese, murderer...
...Through WCBS-TV, the entire city would have a chance to see the performance, and that was what bothered the rabbis most. "The television audience will be a mass audience," they argued. "It will include impressionable young people and teenagers, and many of its adults would not pass muster on the score of intellectual maturity." Rabbis across the city took up the theme. At one temple, for example, Rabbi Louis I. Newman denounced Merchant as "a drama which has been demonstrated beyond peradventure of a doubt as a breeding center for those destructive forces which eventuated in the disasters...
...sweltering red brick Bushnell Memorial Hall, delegates fidgeted and fussed. At 1:34 in the morning, after 10 hr. and 49 min. and eight roll calls, Connecticut Republicans finally selected Insurance Executive John Alsop as their candidate for Governor. Next day, tired and irritable, they took just one decisive muster to smash the comeback attempt of former Governor-Diplomat John Davis Lodge, who wanted to be their nominee for the U.S. Senate...
Biff Bundie pulled up short in shocked disbelief. "He is courting death to escape me. In fact, he's scooted past the most formidable armada the Cambridge roads can muster. I'll be damned." The light changed, and the policeman continued warily...
After three weeks of reveling in the publicity (he brought his son John, 10, with him when newsmen gathered, explaining, "John wanted to get his picture on TV too"), Singelmann had been able to muster only 65 volunteers, including one family of twelve, another of ten, and at least one integrationist Freedom Rider, who gleefully accepted the racist money just for the ride. Most of the Negroes arrived in New York and Los Angeles, sheepish, shy and startled by flashbulbs and inquiring reporters...