Word: musters
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...ceiling on cost-of-living increases. That ceiling had been accepted by the late Walter Reuther as part of the price of ending a strike against Ford in 1967, and he later regretted the decision. Now that the U.A.W. has succeeded in abolishing the ceiling, other unions can muster strong arguments against...
...efforts were prudent, because Gore, 62, and a veteran of 32 years of political strife, counterattacked with more gusto than Brock, 39, seemed able to muster. Old Albert stumped hard, reminded Tennesseans of the bread-and-butter benefits he had fought for, and held his ground with courage, if not cunning. Unlike Democrats elsewhere, he refused to scramble for safe rhetoric when assailed on law-and-order...
...soccer game, and we could barely muster an attack on their goal," Getchell said. In the second half the temperature dropped, and "the field became a quagmire," he said...
...competing power groups that make up the American system have never operated in complete harmony. They have moved ahead according to the clout?electoral, financial and sometimes moral?that they could muster. During the 1960s, the blacks, the poor and the young spoke up and pushed forward. The blue collar workers, who sweated in the mines and factories, built the roads and drove the halftracks, seemed to accept stoically the role of providers and members of the Silent Majority. No longer. Today they are making themselves heard as they have not done since the turbulent 1930s. Their voices are loud...
...born with a political commitment. One receives certain values, tries to apply them with honesty and as much skill as one can muster, and tries to have the courage to accept whatever political commandments the results may imply...