Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the War Department had about decided to enlist women in the U.S. Army. Several branches of the service had asked for it. Most importunate was the Army Air Forces, which is anxious to sign up 25,000 women to serve as telephone operators, plotters and tellers at Army Information and Filter Centers (see p. 55). The Army feels that such jobs, now looked after by volunteers, would be done better by disciplined maidens in uniform...
...thousands of the other rejected recruits will never see military service. They have defects that, by Army standards, are irreparable. Example: the Army prefers to enlist no false-toothed men (but will keep soldiers who, like Grant and Washington, use store teeth later...
...pricked up these old ears" in a London police station at the accent of the boy ahead of him, found he was 21-year-old Steve Traski from Jersey City, who had shipped three times out of Halifax, been torpedoed twice before he finally got to London to enlist with the Free French. His parents were Czechs...
...declared he had found evidence of NYA misspending (on travel expenses, Christmas cards, excessive telephoning, etc.). But his gravest charge was that NYA, to keep up its quota of enrollees and justify its appropriations ($161,000,000 this year), had asked Army recruiting officers to refrain from trying to enlist NYA boys...
...French Somaliland was near the end of its tether. Last week Vichy, pleading for U.S. food for Djibouti, tried desperately to enlist U.S. sympathy for the victims of the brutal British. The British had their own tale of brutality. Djibouti's Vichyfrench authorities, they said, were driving natives out of the colony and into the encircling British lines at guns' point, shooting them if they tried to return...