Word: enlistable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...military settlements overseas, the news about dependents touched off flurries of dismay-even though the reduction is to be carried out gently and gradually, not by separating families already overseas, but by sending fewer dependents abroad in the future. Many a serviceman grumbled that he would not re-enlist if he could not have his wife and children with him overseas, and Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, playing his favorite role of Big Brother to Army dissidents, made things worse by warning of plunging morale. At a U.S. military colony near Paris, an Army officer's wife looked up from...
Gartner and Charles Hartman MG appeared on radio and television and spoke to priests, rabbis, and secondary school teachers last week in an effort to enlist support for their "friendship" campaign...
Unlike most peace groups, the Committees decline to get involved in public demonstrations, though its members are free to do so. Instead, the task is to "enlist intellectuals in a for the new ideas which must the formulated in order to end the arms and in order to plan for a world without war." For this purpose, the committees call on intellectuals "to make their concern for survival an integral part of their concern as professional thinkers, bringing the tools their academic disciplines to bear the problems of peace, and making the substance of their writings and research...
...refused, they were thrown naked into communal and solitary cells at La Victoria prison outside Ciudad Trujillo. They ate slop, were beaten unconscious with clubs and wire whips, scalded with boiling water. Treatment got better when they agreed to try soldiering, but after two months they still refused to enlist and were tossed back into jail. The Greek embassy in Washington finally negotiated their freedom...
Consultation. At one time Myrick, who is married and has four daughters and a son, actually retired from the insurance business. In 1949 he stepped down from a vice-presidency of the Mutual of New York to help Herbert Hoover, an old friend, enlist public support for the Hoover Commission's recommendations for organizational changes in the Federal Government. When that job was finished, Myrick longed for something else to do, decided to go back to his old sales agency as a consultant. "But," says Myrick, "nobody consults you about insurance. You have to go out and consult them...