Word: musters
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Laetitia's employers fired her without asking her exact diagnosis. For weeks she could not muster the courage to tell anyone. Then she told her children, and they were ashamed and frightened. Then, harder still, she told her mother. Her mother raged about the loss of money if Laetitia could not work again. She was so angry she ordered Laetitia out of the house. When her daughter wouldn't leave, the mother threatened to sell the house to get rid of her daughter. Then she walled off her daughter's room with plywood partitions, leaving the daughter a pariah, alone...
Facing the powerful B.C. offense for four minutes, the Crimson played its best defense of the night, with Jonas leading the way, and managed to kill both penalties. However, Harvard could not muster any offense the rest of the period and entered the third trailing by three goals...
...extent, encourages--provide less flexibility than is claimed. For example, students can petition for Foreign Cultures credit for a full-year foreign language course beyond the first-year level. However, despite this provision, many foreign language courses--even those with substantial literary, historical and political components--do not pass muster with the Core Committee. The Spanish 35-36 sequence includes novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and an in-depth study of several South American countries, but petitions to receive Core credit for these courses have repeatedly been rejected by the Core Committee...
That fourth goal iced the game for Harvard, and the teams seemed to play out the final period knowing the outcome was already decided. Despite three UNH power plays, neither team could muster much in the third period, as the squads combined for only 11 shots...
...apply for the entry permits to Britain required for new adoptees, bringing the babies home instead as tourists--a possible immigration offense. They also obtained their "home study," required of adoptive parents in both the U.S. and Britain, from a private social worker. That may have passed muster in Arkansas, but it is unacceptable in Britain. In the wake of a torrent of public disgust, officials in northern Wales obtained a court order and last week swooped down on the Kilshaw home, removing the twins to foster care, at least for now. The Kilshaws plan to contest that move...