Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hated Man. Kadar's eager mouthing of Soviet military commands and his shameless stand on deportations have made him the most hated of Hungarians. Despite frantic appeals, he has been unable to enlist the support of those non-Communist elements which backed Nagy, and though reports of new coalitions are issued from his office weekly, the voice of the Peasant leaders, the Smallholders party and the Social Democrats are silent...
...Harriman had worn off, and it was time for the doughty old man to get down to the hard, cold business of politicking. His first serious move was to invite House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to dinner in his Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite to enlist their aid for Ave. With high hopes that a convivial evening and some earnest talk would do the job, Truman produced a bottle of bourbon and, in the long-established spirit of Capitol Hill, proposed that the three "strike a blow for liberty."* But the food was an unfortunately long...
...grant given by the Ford Foundation will sponsor Leavell as he organizes a program for training Indian health workers and tries to determine the best way to enlist the cooperation of Indian villagers in community projects...
Even if Congress should follow Eisenhower's request, which seems unlikely with 96 of its members pledged to fight integration on all fronts, a Congressional investigation is no answer to the crisis in the South. The present problem is to enlist more Southerners in an effort toward gradual integration, and to reduce the tension which Southern politicians themselves have done much to foster...
...highly dubious analogizing by a nun who tells Tom that his fellow poet's drunkenness, homosexuality and suicide were simply signs of his perfervid search for God, roughly comparable to the quest and anguish of St. Catherine of Siena. At novel's end, Tom goes off to enlist in the growing army of flophouse saints...