Word: musters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Down 8-2 after the second, 10-2 after the fourth and 12-2 after the top of the sixth, the Crimson simply could not muster the offense to stage a miracle comeback. Columbia's southpaw Tom Whelan, a lefthander with an 0-5 record, a 7.46 ERA and an array of pitches that weren't fat, but chronically obese, closed down the Crimson attack until a pitifully late rally in the bottom of the seventh pushed across three runs...
...Carmegie Commission on General Education in 1977 declared general education "a disaster area." The Faculty, facing this formidable precedent, would do well to use all the intelligent advice it can muster. Dean Rosovsky can hardly afford to shrug off the opinions of students, who will ultimately render the last judgment on the Core...
Sponsors of these bills argue that in the event of a major conventional war, the United States could not muster the 650,000 soldiers needed in the first six months. It would be seven months before the first man not in the Ready Reserves could report for duty, says one Senate aide, "and in modern warfare, that would be about six months too late." For the first time ever, all four military services failed to meet their recruiting quotas in the last quarter...
Most of Stephen Sondheim's score matches the best competition-Stephen Sondheim. However, Broadway's Uris Theater is the worst place to hear his intricately clever lyrics. As a tractor factory, the cavernous Uris might pass muster, but as a theater, no. Irony is Sondheim's razor, and its cutting edge is equally present in bittersweet ballads (Pretty Women, Johanna) or in A Little Priest, an antic account of what kinds of pies the varying professions taste like ("Here's a politician so oily/ It's served with a doily...
...much clout can Gov. Edward J. King muster to raise the drinking age to 21? Next week will tell...