Word: musters
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...Perhaps, as is often alleged, public opinion in the West would not support [local build-up of conventional forces]. But no one can know, for the issue has never been presented to it. If the democracies cannot muster a leadership willing to stake its political future on a program essential to survival, its political future is dim indeed...
Brown has had manpower problems all year. Before Christmas the Bruins could muster only 13 qualified players. One of them promptly developed a bad case of asthma forcing him to quit the team. The disciplinary action plummetted the roster to nine men. In the past week Fullerton has been able to find only one replacement, junior Dick Grant, and Grant, who has just recovered from a serious automobile accident, has not played serious hockey for over a year...
...keep from bursting out laughing at some of the cracks. They're that funny. For instance, the divorced husband, realizing his error, says of his new fiancee, "I can't marry her--pushes in the bottom of chocolates." Of his former wife, he laments that he could never muster the nerve to tell her she had a delicate beauty, like white porcelain: "She'd say, 'White porcelain? You mean like the kitchen sink?'" His wife tells a veteran movie actor that she "feels like Katharine Earnshaw...
...model who plays his girl friend, spends most of the picture staring stupefied at the baggy old lieutenant's uniform her part requires, and no wonder; she looks like a flamingo in a horse blanket. On the other hand, Nigel Balchin's script would pass the strictest muster; Jack (The Captain's Table) Lee's direction has edge and drive; and as the spymaster, Actor Andrews drifts through the story like a huge and sinister iceberg-a masterly personification of national self-interest. With this image on the screen, not even a sappy ending can blink...
Privately, the British do not dispute the desirability of having a totally anti-Communist government in Laos, but they seriously question whether such a government can muster the energy and determination to eliminate the Pathet...