Word: musters
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...Wobblies served notice that they would picket the building until the New Republic retracted this slur on their hero. Said New Republic Editor Michael Straight: "I am both pleased and surprised that the I.W.W. was able to muster up the manpower to picket...
...second night in a row, a Freshman meeting to nominate candidates for Student Council election failed to muster enough men for a quorum...
...vaunted Canadian squad 17 minutes and four seconds to sink their first marker, which was equalled almost immediately by the Crimson. But in the second and third periods the floodgates opened to let eight separate players tally eight more markers for the hosts, while the Crimson could only muster three, two of them by Dave Abbot. The final score...
...congressional tempers. When Michigan's Bartel J. Jonkman proposed that the amount of aid be cut to $290 million, he was routed by a vote of 171 to 78. When Wisconsin's Lawrence Smith, with the backing of Charlie Halleck, proposed a $90 million cut, he could muster only 47 ayes to 147 noes. When Oklahoma's Glen D. Johnson, a heretical Democrat, moved to recommit (and thus kill) the bill, he was howled down. Finally, late one afternoon, Speaker Joe Martin took the entire House by surprise to do some howling down himself. Joe Martin banged...
...Cloe when she made her appearance as the gypsy in Verdi's Il Trovatore. She had come to the U.S. from Italy with a little opera company that was stranded, bankrupt, in Chicago last winter (TIME, Feb. 10). She had offered herself to the Met, passed muster at an audition and was launched without fanfare. She was somewhat dumpy of figure, but the audience soon forgave that: she could act and she could sing, with fire and with control. Of nine debuts so far, hers was the only unqualified success...