Word: enlistable
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...feared that it might push Mrs. Gandhi's 20-point program into the background. Other C.P.I, bigwigs urged their party to join the other opposition parties and end its ambiguous policy of "running with the hares and hunting with the hounds." But a hastily organized Communist campaign to enlist popular support by protesting rising prices never got off the ground, and some 100 Communist organizers were arrested for agitating...
Odell's involvement with the CIA began after he graduated from Queen's College in Canada in 1951. An American citizen, he joined the United States Army and entered the officer training program. He was contacted by CIA recruiters when he joined the army, but his decision to enlist didn't end the agency's interest in him. "Once they have their claws in you, they never let go," he says. After quitting the army in disgust over the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954, Odell applied to the Harvard Business School. He was accepted and on the verge of entering...
Communist Party: Gus Hall is running for president on a platform that is not designed to attract mainstream businessmen, but then, that is not a group the Communist Party has ever sought to enlist. Hall, who ran for election in 1972, was originally a mine worker in Minnesota, and one of his most notable campaign slogans is, "You wouldn't elect your boss as shop steward. Why elect his stooge to public office...
...daughter's room. Elizabeth (Genevieve Bujold) goes to investigate and is absent too long. Michael (Cliff Robertson) follows to find his life suddenly shattered-wife and child kidnaped and a note demanding a huge ransom pinned to the bed. At times he is desperate, then hopeful. The police enlist his aid in a plot to outwit the kidnapers, assuring him that official expertise is a better guarantee of his family's safety than his fortune...
...tools around Plains in her blue Chevy, she stops now and then to enlist somebody's help in one cause or another. She is not reluctant to criticize Jimmy. The family, she insists, was never so impoverished during the Depression as he suggests in campaign oratory. She also thinks he talks too much about his religion, about never telling a lie, about loving Rosalynn more now than when he married her. "There was really nothing outstanding about Jimmy as a boy," she reflects. "He was a farm child like all other farm children. I never thought...