Word: musters
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...first of half a dozen scheduled debates with Nethercutt, Foley even managed to muster something that resembled a sneer as he suggested that his opponent would help "move the speakership of the House from eastern Washington to Georgia," an allusion to would-be Speaker Newt Gingrich's district, in exchange for "the lowest position on the House Agriculture Committee," Nethercutt's presumed assignment. His face deeply flushed, Foley shouted, "I fight every day with greater influence on issue after issue for the people of this district...
...years the courts treated children who were kept home as truants; but home schooling is now legal in every state. Thirty-four states have passed specific statutes and regulations, and 29 require standardized testing for home-schooled students to ensure that they are passing muster. Last June the Texas Supreme Court upheld a ruling that exempted home-schooled children from the state's compulsory-attendance laws. As long as parents use a curriculum that includes written materials and meets "basic education goals," the court ruled, the state has no authority over the matter...
...council could not muster the 3/4 vote for a resolution that would have done away with those letters. Under the proposal, students could have checked the box and automatically received all of their money back...
...what is the harm? It's just good clean fun, right? Wrong. Movies like Stone's latest take away part of our capacity to be shocked. They flood the viewer with the most graphic scenes possible, and nothing is left to the imagination. You walk out less able to muster up horror at the world around you. We need that ability, and badly...
...argument still doesn't make the muster," Hurt replied...