Word: enlistable
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...chose doers, despising the contemplative and the idealistic-the kind who in other nations joined the party in the credulous '30s. Stalin was an administrative genius-with the advantage of being able to concede his errors and bury his mistakes. It took skill to pick devoted men, to enlist their talents while subduing their ambitions, to reward or discard, flatter or blackmail, soothe or scourge, at the necessary moment. Stalin governed by a cunning balancing of tensions, and was himself aloof and unhurried...
Sterling, says Butler, has gained a "breathing space"-but only a breathing space. In Washington, he and Eden hope to enlist U.S. help for a long-range Commonwealth plan to 1) make the pound freely convertible into dollars, kroner and yen; 2) multiply the free world's trade; 3) attract dollar investments to the Commonwealth and Empire. To make their plan work, the British hope to persuade the U.S. to lower its trade barriers and to provide some kind of dollar backing for the pound. The Administration promised to listen carefully...
...letters on the walls of West Germany last week, these words halted many a German in his tracks. The warning: beware of Kopfjäger (headhunters), i.e., recruiting agents of the French Foreign Legion who get a bounty of 30 marks ($7) a head for every man they enlist. According to the opposition German Social Democratic Party, which put up the posters, more than 90,000 young Germans, the equivalent of seven divisions, have enlisted in the legion for service in Indo-China, and 10,000 have lost their lives. "Absurd," answered the French...
...include columns heavy with culture, foreign news and features. He picked up new readers steadily, experimented with such ideas as departmentalizing the news, developed a staff studded with columnists and breezy local writers. During World War II, he resigned from the Navy, after serving as a lieutenant commander, to enlist as a private in the Marines, did combat duty in the Pacific and came out a lieutenant. Then he went back into the Navy on active duty as a full commander...
...devoured Tacitus and Thucydides ("Two friends of mine"), took up Sanskrit, learned German, threw himself into the Populist cause. He also submitted to the drilling of a stiff-backed young military instructor named John J. Pershing.* By the time the Spanish-American War broke out, Johnson was ready to enlist...