Word: enlistable
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Hold Out! Hold Out! A general takes a patriotic view. He wants to enlist -THEM in the cold war. "We've got to make contact," he says. "Bring them in on our side. If they shared with us, told us all they knew . . . we'd be unbeatable." A small-town barber, who is planning to meet THEM by building a giant Jacob's ladder to heaven, raves on like a real estate developer. "Four soaring arches spanning the state," he proposes, "topped by a golden latticework of jointed metal. Build it up in easy stages. Hydraulic elevators...
...name Athenagoras (rhymes with again a chorus) when he was ordained a deacon. He was raised to episcopal rank in 1922, and came to the U.S. in 1931 as Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America. Athenagoras became an American citizen, even tried to enlist after Pearl Harbor, was turned down...
...sponsors of the literacy project, however, do not expect a great deal of trouble. They will not work through the SNCC organization in Selma, but through a Catholic missionary group, Sharkey said. He noted that Miss Varella has visited Selma several times, and is attempting to enlist the support of white moderates for the project...
...book a runaway bestseller. Author Maclnnes also clearly deserves some sort of votive offering from the Central Intelligence Agency. The Venetian Affair, in fact, is likely to do more for the CIA's image than a dozen apologias by Allen Dulles. Take the CIA man who tries to enlist the reluctant critic in the international struggle...
Regrettably, a professional armed service does not provide a simple solution to the problem. Each year 500,000 men are inducted into the military. One hundred thousand are drafted the others enlist. If the draft were abolished, the services would lose not only the 100,000 draftees, but also most of the other 400,000. As the above mentioned dropout figures suggest, nine out of ten men enlist because of the threat of the draft. Once free of that threat, they show little eagerness to stay in uniform...