Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Autonomy. "The new world that we seek will enlist the cooperation of all peoples on a basis of human equality, self-respect and mutual tolerance...
This book is a sequel to The Sword in the Stone, shows faintbrained, sweet-natured King Arthur confronted with the first problems of his position: how, with horn-rimmed Merlyn's help, to defeat rebellious kings; how to enlist Might in the cause of Right. Half-fantasy, half-burlesque, like its predecessor it mixes wisecracks and Morte d'Arthur, scrambles legend and topical satire. While her husband King Lot is away fighting Arthur, Queen Morgause, comic symbol of the egocentric wife, attempts the seduction of lovesick King Pellinore (3.2 Don Quixote) and Sir Grummore Grummursum (Sancho Panza...
Married. Josef Lipski, former Polish Ambassador to Germany, to a Mme Rosset, who had just squeaked out of Warsaw by plane before the Germans captured it; in Paris. Day after his wedding, Mr. Lipski went off to enlist as a private in the Polish Legion in France...
...actually fighting the war need no further declaration of aims. They-like the Germans-are simply fighting for their lives; their war aim is to win the war. The chief benefit to the Allies in drawing up a set of war aims would be to satisfy, and perhaps enlist the sympathies of, neutral onlookers -particularly in the U. S. For the perplexed U. S. people strongly desire to know exactly what kind of world it is that the Governments of Great Britain and France are fighting to protect or gain. Nowhere was this U. S. perplexity better expressed than...
...Paris, Polish Singer Jan Kiepura tried to enlist in a Polish legion, instead was sent to cheer up U. S. Poles...