Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refused himself the easier waiting role of a mere refugee movement in London; he refused to enlist French soldiers into British units to "fight a war no longer their own"; he "encased myself in ice" against those who opposed him. "I am too poor to be able to bow," he once told Churchill. At first considered an absurd figure, in the end he won grudging respect ?and, more important, won his point...
Witches of Salem (Kingsley International) is a foredoomed but fascinating attempt to enlist the powers of darkness on the side of the angels. The film is based on The Crucible, Arthur Miller's angry drama of moral ideas and political implications, which ran for almost six months on Broadway in 1953. Unhappily, Playwright Miller tried to reason his demons out of existence with intellectual argument rather than exorcising them with literary magic and dramatic spells. As a result, a play that held an image for the ages became no more than a vigorous tract for the times...
Erhard's summary of Asia: "Far too much trading, far too little production. They all want giant plants. This makes little sense. They have to work from the bottom up and enlist the masses in projects that the masses can see are for their good. Instead of giant plants, there should be improved farming and simple machines for small-scale craftsmen...
...possibility also arose that Winans would try to enlist enough Council support so that if he is denied permission to speak tonight, at least seven members will walk out of the meeting, leaving Leland without a quorum...
...unruly barons and welds England into a nation. But the simple-souled, sweet-natured sovereign is troubled by feudal underlords who feel free to have their peasants basted over slow fires or sprinkled with molten lead. Merlyn plants a revolutionary idea in the King's head, to enlist Might in the cause of Right, and Arthur begins to recruit the Round Table. This, of course, brings the peerless Sir Lancelot to court, to Queen Guenever and to the cuckoldry of poor, long-suffering Arthur. Author White tastefully tucks the 20-odd-year dalliance of "Lance" and "Jenny" between...