Word: musters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even fewer at his level who are given to earthy battle cries like "If you want to run with the big dogs, you can't piss like a puppy" or "Never come to a gunfight with only a knife." But Adami surely needed all the fighting spirit he could muster when, almost 18 months ago, his longtime employer, South African Breweries (now known as SABMiller), dispatched him to Milwaukee, Wis., to help restore its floundering new subsidiary as a serious rival to behemoth Anheuser-Busch...
...Script: Naturally, Chalabi's script has had to undergo several rewrites since it became clear to his backers in Washington that simply shoe-horning him into power would be a disaster. Unable to muster any significant support on the ground, Chalabi's star has waned as a contender for a top spot. Instead, he has sought to carve out an influential role for himself as a man who can mediate between opposing factions. He sought to help negotiate an end to the standoff between the Americans and Moqtada Sadr's men at Najaf, and has lately been mediating between...
...After] two weeks of really intense, hard mental labor,” Fish said, “[if] your team can muster 80 percent of [its] mental and physical resources during this time, that’s a victory. [Harvard] is a grind. They all put in their time, and they try to keep their hand in while they’re doing what they came here...
Though he was unable to muster an effort good enough to make the final—18 hundredths of a second off the qualifying time—Cromwell’s heat time earned him a spot in the consolation final and satisfied his goal. He then won the successive heat with a time that, had he been in the final, would have been good enough for seventh, 0.01 seconds out of sixth...
After a strong indoor performance against the other Ivy League teams, the result for the men outdoor was disappointing, if only because the team could not muster enough runners to improve upon its performance in the winter...