Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convalescence, he heard of the death in Korea of a close high school friend. "That boy who was born in this country had a right to the freedom I enjoyed," he said. "If he could fight, why shouldn't I? Upon release from the sanitarium, Ponte tried desperately to enlist in the army. But he was classified 4F. He tried to join the ROTC, and again was rejected...
...down was wrong. Everett favored the religious tone of Christo et Ecclesiae, a tone which veritas has not retained. He requested the aid of Samuel Adams Eliot, then treasurer of the Corporation, in restoring the "Spiritual and Godly Shield." Eliot, he soon found, was not the man to enlist in this cause. Unknown to the President, Eliot had been instrumental in getting Veritas recognized a few years before. The letters exchanged between the two men were lengthy, heated, but always, of course, scrupulously polite. Each held to his position, but Everett was President and his view prevailed. He chortled...
What makes Toko-ri different as a war novel is its central theme of responsibility, something other U.S. writers have bypassed in an effort to outdo each other in gaminess, self-pity, resentment and use of four-letter words. Author Michener, a Quaker who overcame his religious scruples to enlist in the Navy in World War II, knows his subject. He is not a great novelist, and Toko-ri will not go down as a great novel. But it is an uncompromising story of fear, truth and death...
...almost three years of war, the 20 million people of South Korea have counted 1,000,000 civilian casualties, 9,000,000 displaced persons, 300,000 widows, 100,000 orphans, 500,000 homes destroyed. In Manhattan last week, a humanitarian effort got under way to enlist more private American help for Korea's destitute civilians. Its sponsor: the newly organized American-Korean Foundation, chaired by Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, the President's brother and head of Pennsylvania State College (see THE HEMISPHERE). Its objective: "the warm, personal assistance of people to people." Its first fund-raising target...
...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...