Word: musters
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Their opponents, the Deacons of Kirkland, will be no soft touch. To date they are unscored upon, but have little to show in the way of scoring themselves. The question is whether their strong defense can check the Adams backs while the offense can muster enough push to score a touchdown...
...President greeted him with the melting charm that only a Roosevelt can muster, touched his heart by inquiring about Mrs. Doughton's health, asked how the Doughton beef steers were getting on at Laurel Springs, N.C. Then he mentioned the Social Security message he was preparing for Congress, topped it off with some breezy chitchat about world affairs. Mountaineer Doughton went away mollified but not wholly convinced. He thought the President would probably see part of his New Deal dream made flesh, but not his whole heart's desire...
Play bogged down after the score, and neither team was able to gain an advantage. A few times Leverett got the ball and seemed to be getting started as fullback and Captain Dick Jayson squirmed through the Deacen defense for a few large gains. But the Bunnies couldn't muster the necessary push in the pinches and were forced to punt...
Snarling at Russia's flanks, two jackals last week tried to muster courage to spring for the kill. Big Russia was bleeding from wounds made by Nazi fangs, but there was enough fight in the old bear to frighten Japan and Bulgaria. Benito Mussolini, who has got used to being called a jackal, must have grinned at their behavior...
...Training Plan in Canada, which so far has turned out 50,000 partly-trained pilots, was now up to original quotas, but those quotas had been outdated because of increased plane production. Besides, the R.A.F. was appallingly weak to start with: at the war's start it could muster only 124 first-line squadrons (about 1,500 planes). It was now almost three times as strong (about 4,200 first-line planes), but had a very long way to go in order definitely to overhaul the Luftwaffe (six air fleets of 1,700 operative planes each, before the Russian...