Word: musters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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House Republicans wanted a slice of $6 billion, but appeared ready to compromise at $5 billion. With that amount, Mills was sure that he could muster 90 to 100 Republican votes for the tax rise, more than enough to offset the defection of liberal Democrats, who agreed with the President that the budget needed more, not less money...
...experimenting with the tube in 1952. In coming months, Fort Ord will expand its closed-circuit television network so that 30 of a rookie's 60 hours of classroom work during basic training are likely to consist of televised instruction By mid-1968, eleven basic-training installations will muster a total of 60 TV-training channels...
...second freshman heavyweight shell from Harvard led Penn over the course until the last three-eighths of a mile. Penn's power broke this boat, which could not muster an effective sprint to match the Red and Blue...
Allied intelligence doubted that the Communists, who by allied count have lost 71,000 men since Tet, could muster a second offensive on the same devastating scale. But just in case they tried, allied troops were put on the alert throughout South Viet Nam. City dwellers were asked to stockpile food and fuel, lock their doors and stay home. Saigon police threw a cordon around the capital to block arms infiltration. The U.S. 25th Infantry Division was deployed around Tan Son Nhut airport and the allied headquarters there, and B-52s bombed the Communists' likely approaches to Saigon...
...Crimson attack could muster only eight hits, three from the bat of third baseman Bill Cobb. Harvard's three leading sluggers, Jeff Grate, John Ignacio and captain Carter Lord, accounted for only two hits among them...