Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long fight of 35 men from the Class of 1954 to receive their Air Force commissions may have ended. In a surprise announcement, the Air Force announced recently all 35 can serve at least six months as officers if they will enlist in the Corps by June...
...dilemma still faces the 15 who were not in the service. They have the option of finishing their education or of enlisting by June. If they enlist they will probably enter as Airmen and then be commissioned during their two years' service, probably serving the last six months as officers...
...think in strange abstractions, practical physicists who deal in billions of volts of energy and hundred-millionths of seconds, chemists who juggle beakers of death-dealing radiation, engineers who work to microscopic tolerances in strange new metals, biologists who use the atom in delicate life experiments, physicians who enlist the atom as a strong new ally against disease and death...
...Durban, the Reconstituted Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa charged that Prime Minister J. G. Strydom "is doing everything in his power to enlist the aid of the Dutch Reformed Church to achieve a totalitarian state in South Africa," warned that South Africa is "being led toward a police state" by an Afrikaner brotherhood said to be backed by the major Dutch Reformed Churches...
Chancellor, the government would operate under the "volunteers bill" for less than a year, would enlist no more than 6,000 volunteers as "temporary civil servants" and would keep civilian control of the military...