Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could enlist in any branch of the armed services. Men in the Army or Marines would continue to serve three years on active duty and seven years in the reserves, and those in the Navy or Air Force would still serve four years on active duty and four years in the reserve...
Weiland's defending Pentagonal League champions will enlist the services of only one experienced defenseman tonight, hard body-checking Ned Almy, who will work with Arty Noyes, an ex-lineman. The starting defense includes Doug Manchester, last year's high scorer, and Pete Summers, wingman...
...George went to the Wharton School of Finance, but left after one semester to enlist in the Navy. For three years (including ten months in the Pacific) Leader was a World War II supply officer. After the war he returned to York County and (with the help of a G.I. loan ) bought Willow Brook Farm, a 28-acre outfit with a tidy 80-year-old brick house and an operating hatchery just 15 miles from his birthplace. After a grinding first year, Willow Brook Farm paid off handsomely. Leader now sells more than 1,000,000 chicks...
Such a conflict would be even more serious than the H-bomb delay. For if the U.S. cannot continue to enlist the support of science, if it cannot solve the critical problems of the relationship between the national interest and the pursuit of knowledge, then the U.S. will not survive-and will not deserve to survive. These are not questions for scientists alone or for public officials alone; they affect everybody, and it is wholesome, though painful, that the Shepley-Blair report brings a much larger part of this important argument to public view...
...long hours of private talk with Nehru, Mao Tse-tung and Chou showed no interest in granting Nehru his area of peace. Instead, Chou wanted to enlist him in a "joint declaration" that would pledge "protection" to Asia against Western interference...