Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inductive Reasoning. In Downs, Ill., , Ralph Douglas decided to enlist in the Army, gave his reason: "I just want an English war bride...
Another decision reached yesterday was to attempt to enlist all ex-service women in Radcliffe. There are already several members from Radcliffe, and Kay Barber, graduate student and ex-Wave, is leading the drive there...
Many a Corpus man is a veteran, for the war's end converted Oxford into a strange combination of unlicked cubs fresh from public schools and older men just back from the wars. When one of these veterans "went down" (left Oxford) to enlist, Sir Richard said that if he were heading for the trenches his knapsack would contain a copy of Thucydides in the original Greek. In view of the speed of modern warfare, he added, thoughtfully, a man might be justified in taking the Loeb translation...
...Howe is guilty of one of the things which she parodies so effectively: the constant use of literary allusion in conversation. The entire book is larded with supposedly apt quotations, most of them uprooted from English literature and sown broadcast through every chapter. When Dorothea's son wishes to enlist in the Navy, Miss Howe's comment as novelist is "No man is an island," a reference which since the publication of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" has been fighting it out with "This above all" as the most overworked phrase in all literature...
Observers predicted that Yoshida would need more shots of MacArthurian adrenalin if he was to survive in spite of his lack of tact. Sample: some time ago he invited two U.S. correspondents of Irish descent to dinner in an effort to enlist their help in mitigating occupation directives-which, said he, "as you Irishmen can understand, are too oppressive for the proud to bear...