Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York they got in touch with the British consul. The boys had taken a cattle boat to England to enlist in the R.A.F. soon after the war began. They had flown over Germany, Poland, France and Libya. One, a gunner, said he had shot down 56 enemy planes; his friend had shot down more than that. Both deprecated the idea that these were exceptional scores...
After and if he gets his final U.S citizenship papers, Cinemactress Gene Tierneys dress-designing husband Oleg Cassini wants to enlist. Everybody but Cassini was prepared for his citizenship last week in Los Angeles. Present as witnesses were his wife, also Cinemactress Cobina Wright Jr. and Mrs. Victor Mature. Cassini turned up without the necessary papers proving his past. Hearing postponed...
Elliott Perkins, master of Lowell House, who has taken over for Professor A James Casner as head of the War Service Information Bureau, has released the details of the Army Emergency Deferment Enlistment Plan. Under this scheme, which is only open for two weeks, any student who knows he is about to go into the Army, but has not setually received his induction papers yet, may, if approved by the Army, and reccomended by Perkins, enlist in this new plan...
...Sutton's brown hair has a trace of grey now. Sitting in her neat living room, under one photograph of her husband in civilian clothes, one of him in uniform, she sometimes reads the message in which Ted told her he planned to enlist. It is in her diary, under...
...decision to enlist was brought about by the ruthless attack the Japs made upon our country, my country. In some puny way I may be able to help. . . . We must not, we will not, allow them to take away the freedom, the liberty, the things we hold dear...