Word: musters
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...overhanging boulders and ledges. In the morning, mists backed by fresh winds sweep swiftly across the hillsides, casing them in pale blues. Villages hang precariously, hacked out of pure stone. In such surroundings, only local power and force can hold sway; only the number of rifles a tribe can muster means anything. It is no wonder that Suleiman, as a slim youth tending his master's flocks, dreamed godlike visions in these hills. This dream and the native understanding that only power counts is what set him on his vicious trail of plunder, loot and robbery, brought him dubious...
What's most important, there won't be a muster; but if you aren't present you will be marked "absent" on the fun to be provided by this "jam-up" program...
Next, go to your radio set. Approach the object with all the pent up sneer you can muster. (This last direction is straight from Frend.) Then, with rapidly successive strokes, pluck each shiny tube from its smug receptacle, clutch gleefully in both hands, and with a heinous whoop," or whatever other sound may best express your innermost emotions, smash one at a time against the book-piled desk at which you've sat so many hot nights. After this act of delicious reprisal, grab the nearest blunt weapon, and bludgeon to permanent silence the obstinate object of your electronic muddle...
...retreat. At this season the rivers were dry, and the Allies had only to march around the ruined bridges. The Germans grew weaker & weaker in the air, until finally Allied soldiers on the ground seldom looked up when they heard a plane. What air support the Germans could muster had to come from the incessantly bombed airdromes of southern Italy...
...months ago the Jap's tactical air force along his southern perimeter was considered formidable. In the last fortnight there were days when two to seven were all the planes he could muster; his largest operational flight...