Word: musters
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...forever afterward vaguely inattentive and quietly dissolute in manner. But last week the French had put aside love and proverbs for a hard look at Laos' defenses: under King Sisavang Vong's banner (a field of red with three white elephants under a white parasol), Laos could muster only 10,000 trained & tried soldiers and 13,000 armed but untried men, all with French officers...
Unsafe Deposit. In Muncie, Ind., Supermarket Owner Lester Muster, trying to outwit burglars, kept his money in a wastebasket instead of a drawer, until an employee chucked $10,080 in cash and checks into a fire while cleaning...
...occasion for this particular amnesty, the Kremlin explained, is "the increase in well-being and cultural standards of the population." The likely explanation is considerably less hopeful: Malenkov & Co., in need of as much public acquiescence as they can muster while they nail down the power they inherited from Stalin, are unlocking a few cell doors to appease the population, but throwing away none of the keys which make all of Russia's 210 millions their prisoners...
Clubs like the HYRC and HLU, strongholds of political interest, cannot muster enough internal disagreement for really fruitful debate. And they view debates with each other something like troops regard combat with fixed bayonets. The majority of students avoid all these clubs, sometimes because they do not want to be themselves to national organizations and sometimes because they abhor "student politics...
...handful of craftsmen (among them: an old widow, an ex-jockey, a chef) will spend an entire week fashioning the body for such a figure, then modeling the uniform out of tin leaf. It takes 40 delicate soldering operations to make King Louis' drummer fit to pass muster and about $30 hard cash to put him in a collector's cabinet...