Word: enlistable
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...angry, but when he got mad he stayed mad: public slurs had been circulated about his wife, his father, his family. He began giving each train-platform audience a history of each of them-his father's belligerent advocacy of civil liberties, his father's attempt to enlist in 1917 at the age of 60, his mother's years of work in the Red Cross, his sister's wartime Government work as a translator of confidential war documents, his own enlistment, that of his oldest brother Robert, the war work of another brother in airplane manufacture...
...United States, seven long years ago, declared a state of emergency, and called for united action against the economic and social ills that afflicted "one-third of a nation." Back in those days, if memory serves correctly, many Harvard Alumni did not see it that way. Harvard did not enlist in that war with unanimity. Many thought that it was much more important to balance the budget...
Many of the same persons who refuse to enlist in the war to save democracy by peaceful means are now attacking freedom of discussion in our universities. Two such offences are enough to raise serious suspicion. We may put our confidence in the ability of these men to arm the nation, but we will never let them seize the sole right to speak, think, and act for American democracy...
...during a half-lifetime of residence in the country as well as a dislike of the Axis governments prompted him to join up with the French Foreign Legion at the outset of the struggle, but as an American citizen he encountered difficulties which made it impossible for him to enlist. Balked in this first attempt to serve, he spent five months in Paris first working under Andre Morize, professor of Romance Languages, in the Propaganda Bureau, and then working for the Czech National Committee...
...College has increased the size of its first-year class over the normal 1,000, officials explained yesterday, to take care of possible vacancies in case any students are called into the government services or enlist voluntarily...