Word: enlistable
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...plans he has drawn up for each of them--marriage, working for the family, and the like--while he awaits his appointment with a bank official. Efisio Ledda singles out his oldest son for special treatment, informing the 20-year-old Gavino (Saverio Marconi) that he should enlist in the army for training as a radio technician. When his wife brings up Gavino's illiteracy, Efisio dismisses her misgivings and assures her that their eldest will learn quickly. He then quizzes Gavino on multiplication tables, greeting his son's off-the-mark guesses with a palm planted squarely on Gavino...
...long. Just last week, the Sandinistas launched another in a series of military offensives that began last October, engaging the National Guard in the villages of Granada, Rivas and Corinto. The Sandinista front has made a conscious effort to transcend their narrow revolutionary ideology and military approach, and instead enlist the support of all Somoza opponents in a pluralistic coalition. With the increasing political support of non-Socialist groups such as the Conservative Party and the "radical Christians," the Sandinista effort to topple the dictatorial Somoza regime appears bound for success...
...group takes such ancient tradition more seriously than the Episcopal schismatics, and they tried desperately to enlist a third consecrator. One retired bishop agreed to participate, then backed out last year for health reasons. The schismatics were counting on Bishop Clarence Haden of Sacramento, a crusty conservative who celebrated Communion at their first national rally in St. Louis last September, but he decided to do nothing. At the St. Louis rally Charles Boynton, retired assistant bishop of New York City, privately pledged to do the honors but withdrew under doctor's orders just two weeks before the Denver ceremony...
...asks Ruff, "is it an unreasonable invasion of privacy? We say that it is not." HEW plans to expand Match to include all federal employees and to help states start their own mini-Match. Under pressure from civil libertarians, Califano has shelved, at least temporarily, a plan to enlist the help of private corporations in searching out welfare recipients on their payrolls...
...Hubert returned to the University of Minnesota, where he majored in political science and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. When World War II broke out, he tried repeatedly to enlist, but was turned down because of a double hernia and lung calcification. (During the crucial West Virginia presidential primary in 1960, he was unjustly accused of being a draft dodger by John Kennedy's supporters.) He served as Minnesota state director of war-production training, and in 1943 ran for mayor of Minneapolis. He lost, largely because the liberal vote was split between the Democratic Party and the Farmer-Labor...