Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outbreak of the last war, Bonney pointed out, members of the Yale Peace Society, a group with views similar to those of the Young Progressives, were the first Yale students to enlist...
Joseph Stalin once asked a scornful question: "How many divisions has the Pope?" An answer was prepared last week. Pius XII decreed excommunication for Roman Catholics who "knowingly and freely . . . defend and spread Communism." Those Catholics who "enlist in or show favor to the Communist Party" and those who "publish, read or disseminate" Communist publications would be denied the sacraments...
Kirkland, last year's champion, has fallen. Not only have the Deacons lost two out of two, they have failed to enlist any more than two of last year's squad to help them out. Star outfielder Freg Wagon, for example, has strayed out of activity. This is ironic indeed in an organization which worships that rather vague deity, House Spirit...
...Plan S (for syndicalism). He wanted to build up the Free Federation of Italian Labor, to rival the Red-run Italian Confederation of Labor (C.G.I.L.) through which the Communists have kept an iron grip on four million of Italy's workers. Gedda's goal was to enlist two million members for the Free Federation...
...someone they could "depend on." Said resourceful Chick: "A friend of mine is in the Golden Gloves, that's a boxing club, and he fought four rounds and won a beautiful $150 Bulova watch ... If he can do it, I can do it. So I'm gonna enlist in the Golden Gloves, and I'm gonna fight...