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Word: enlisting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same breath, "Long live Petr Zenkl." We preferred to give up a part of our individual freedom to save the economic freedom for the whole nation. President Benes, with his utmost self-denial, showed us the way. We realized very well that every opponent of communism had to enlist, willy nilly, into the mercenary ranks of capitalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechs Far From Despair | 4/13/1948 | See Source »

Headed by Daniel M. Pierce '49, the University chapter has been officially chartered by the National Students for Stassen Committee. Plans are being rushed forward to enlist new members, distribute pins and literature, and push a Stassen victory in a mock convention to be held next month at the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Groups Pull for Favorite Sons | 4/8/1948 | See Source »

...Stay. Americans for Democratic Action, of which Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. is national vice chairman, promptly announced that its executive board would meet in Pittsburgh on April 10 to endorse a man who can "enlist the united allegiance of non-Communist American progressives." A.F.L. and C.I.O. bigwigs put forth the word that they would soon come out swinging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Panic | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...female client attempted to enlist the society's support in stopping a young man from putting a "hox" on her step-daughter. The girl was forced to take to her bed under the influence of the man's evil machinations according to the woman's testimony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Honor Students Provide Legal Aid, Gratis | 3/25/1948 | See Source »

...family in Austria, he had to apply for a German passport. To Corinne his act seemed a compromise with Hitlerism and a betrayal of her love. She persuaded him to tear up his passport. Then came the war: France considered him an enemy alien; when he tried to enlist in the French army he was rejected. In the end he marched off to a French concentration camp for aliens, while Corinne settled down to wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intensity in the Alps | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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