Word: enlistable
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...they knew better. Their only hope for trimming down the second most powerful Congressman was to enlist the sympathy of Mr. Sam himself. Meekly, they wrote to him at his home in Bonham, Texas to petition for an interview. Carefully, they grapevined the gist of their case: they wanted nothing, really, except to increase the Speaker's own control over Smith's difficult committee. Perhaps, they hinted, Mr. Sam would add an extra liberal Democrat to the Rules Committee (eight Democrats, four Republicans), thus weaken Smith's coalition of conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats...
...refused himself the easier waiting role of a mere refugee movement in London; he refused to enlist French soldiers into British units to "fight a war no longer their own"; he "encased myself in ice" against those who opposed him. "I am too poor to be able to bow," he once told Churchill. At first considered an absurd figure, in the end he won grudging respect ?and, more important, won his point...
Witches of Salem (Kingsley International) is a foredoomed but fascinating attempt to enlist the powers of darkness on the side of the angels. The film is based on The Crucible, Arthur Miller's angry drama of moral ideas and political implications, which ran for almost six months on Broadway in 1953. Unhappily, Playwright Miller tried to reason his demons out of existence with intellectual argument rather than exorcising them with literary magic and dramatic spells. As a result, a play that held an image for the ages became no more than a vigorous tract for the times...
Erhard's summary of Asia: "Far too much trading, far too little production. They all want giant plants. This makes little sense. They have to work from the bottom up and enlist the masses in projects that the masses can see are for their good. Instead of giant plants, there should be improved farming and simple machines for small-scale craftsmen...
...possibility also arose that Winans would try to enlist enough Council support so that if he is denied permission to speak tonight, at least seven members will walk out of the meeting, leaving Leland without a quorum...