Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats took up Gardner's theme. Declared Washington's Senator Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson: it would be "entirely proper for the AEC to arrange a rehearing and a reconsideration in light of present circumstances." Chorused Florida's George Smathers: "We must do everything we can to enlist all the brainpower on our side." Said New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson, vice chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy: "Mr. Oppenheimer was indiscreet in many of the things he said, but you have to take genius the way it exists." Some scientists backed...
Communist party boss Nikita Krushchev made a bid to enlist Western European Socialist parties into a popular front with the Communists, warning that they are in serious danger of being dragged into...
Although almost everyone has his brush with the military, it is the career enlisted men and officers on whom the nation's defense rests. The tendency at present is for only the mediocre, the neurotic, or those trapped by financial necessity, to remain after they have fulfilled their military obligation. And in the case of most critical skills, it takes many thousands of dollars and several years to train competent personnel. Yet private industry most often reaps the fruit of this expensive training, because less than one out of four re-enlist for a second term. Even this appallingly...
While Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew off to enlist support for the idea in six South American capitals and Washington, the Arabs said that they are interested in hearing only one word-independence-and that each day without it widens the gap between Arab and Frenchman, drives moderate Arabs to relentless choices, and makes more difficult an eventual reconciliation in peace...
...second time in four years, the AFL is waging an all-out campaign to enlist unskilled University employees. In 1954 the national union was soundly defeated; this spring Local 254 of the AFL Building Service Employees' International Union has assigned five full-time organizers to see that it does not happen again and to assure the addition of 1,100 new members to its ranks...