Word: musters
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Chairman. When one after another failed to muster a majority, it looked as though the meeting would wash out with a rain check. But the Yankees' new boss, irrepressible Larry MacPhail, demanded action, and threatened to "lock the door and keep it locked" until a new commissioner was named...
...Alexander M. Vasilevsky and Konstantin K. Rokossovsky. which had flattened the East Prussia and Pomerania pockets. To the south, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's big First Ukrainian Army was launched to hurl itself toward Dresden. Against all this massive weight was the largest force the shredded Wehrmacht could muster: perhaps 900,000 men in formidable defense positions. But greater German forces had failed to stop the Red Army when its full weight was catapulted into action...
...plan had been simple. The Japanese admirals proposed to launch the heaviest air blow they could muster against the U.S. ships off Okinawa, perhaps sink a few. The next day the blow would be repeated, in hopes that the jittery fleet would scatter. Into the melee the fastest, heaviest ships Japan possessed would be sent to smash more vessels, then run for home again. It was a good enough plan, but it did not work...
...establishing the security which js M.G.'s chief job. Thanks to the experience of Aachen, M.G. moved fast and seemed to know what it was doing. An ex-police chief removed by the Nazis in 1933 was found and reinstated, as were 123 cops who passed the M.G. muster. As each resident was registered and fingerprinted, he got a ration card. With the assistance of 63 ex-telephone-company employes, telephone service was partially restored...
...reasoning behind this news was clear enough. To shake off the old lethargy and face the growing challenge for world air routes, it was obviously necessary for the British Government to expand its monopoly to include all the experience, equipment and money its private transportation industry could muster - even though some British shippers and independent airlines bellowed for free competition...