Word: enlistable
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Though he chaired the most important wartime committee in Congress -the Truman committee acted as watchdog over defense-Harry tried to enlist in the Army. He went to see Army Chief of Staff George Marshall...
When the National Institute of Mental Health in 1968 first launched its nationwide mass-media campaign against drug abuse, many other organizations also took up the cause, and regiments of film makers and pamphleteers rushed forward to enlist-and, not coincidentally, to acquire some of the Government money that was made available. Last week the National Coordinating Council on Drug Education announced an assessment of these films-and it was a distinct downer...
...those forces have been allowed to grow. If nothing else, the Helsinki negotiations will test the most basic issues in European affairs today: Are the Soviet Union and its satellites ready for a true relaxation of tensions? Or do they still depend upon the existence of outside enemies to enlist the support of their own people? In short, is Europe ready for an outbreak of peace? The answer should emerge at Helsinki and in the historic conference that lies beyond...
...NLRB's charge was one of two setbacks that the Coop suffered in its conflict with the local over the drive of the union to enlist the Coop's employees. The store also lost a dispute with the union over which of the Coop's employees may cast ballots in the January 25 unionization vote...
George Welbes' McMurphy doesn't enlist much sympathy, engaging clown though he is. Although he gives a generally laudable performance, his somewhat nasty and unnatural laugh, that echoes throughout the play, came to represent the outside world, the spectators, laughing at his comrades, instead of with them or for them. His swaggering and posturing, his gambling with cigarettes or human lives, is often too funny for comfort or credibility. A continuous lack of subtlety brought out the more humorous sides of the situation, and only towards the very end, in a scene like the one in which he gets Chief...