Word: musters
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...mystery a la Holmes or Poirot is the author's singular inability to create any distinctively human characters. Cussler's figures are worse than wooden: the neurotic physicist, dashing American agent, villainous Russian spy and confused but loving heroine are all solid concrete stereotypes that wouldn't even pass muster in a remake of "The Adventures of Superman." And the dialogue, which seems borrowed from a 1952 State Department propaganda pamphlet, doesn't help--one hardly knows whether to laugh or cry at the following outburst from the American heroine to her Soviet tormentor: What's the matter, Ivan...
...Many grandparents carry three or four generations of history in their heads but don't talk about it because they have been ignored. And when the young person starts doing this, the old are warmed to the cockles of their souls and will tell a grandchild everything they can muster...
Harvard played a crisp, cohesive ball through most of the first half, as the cagers seemed well on their way to snapping a four-game Ivy League losing streak, but could muster only 22 points in the second stanza...
...tripping call on Harvard's John Cochrane with three minutes left in regulation took the steam out of the comeback drive, and the Crimson failed to muster another good shot on net for the remainder of playing time...
...government wanted the legislation passed before the current parliamentary session ends Nov. 23. And after the loss of the two seats in the by-elections, Labor whips had to muster every vote possible. Thus Labor M.P. Helene Hayman, 27, took part in voting after setting up her own private wet nursery in a room adjoining the Commons chamber. On the critical ship and aircraft bill, the barkeep, Independent Frank McGuire, 47, came into play; a supporter of the Irish Republican movement who normally backs the government on domestic issues, when he votes at all, was closely escorted through the voting...