Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After two months at Hamilton College in 1945, he quit to enlist in the Marines. Memorizing the eye chart in advance, he almost passed the eye test before his glass eye was noticed ("One eye didn't move, and they thought something was fishy"). The glass eye also kept him off the decks and out of the engine room in the merchant marine, so he signed on as a cook...
...addition, the Guru has built a chain of enterprises designed to carry out the "practical plan for world peace" which he will detail at the Astrodome. Under the aegis of Divine United Organization (set up to enlist the "efforts of all trying to improve the condition of the world") is a chain of Divine Sales stores offering second-hand goods; Shri Hans Aviation, which operates two small planes in Riverside, Calif; and Divine Systems Enterprises, Inc. which includes wholesale dealerships in electronic equipment ("Divine Office Systems") and musical instruments ("Divine Harmony"). But most of Divine Light's money is raised...
Nobody in Washington was proposing terms to the Israelis-let alone the Arabs --last week. Instead, Kissinger put in 20-hour work days, mostly on the telephone, trying to enlist the support of other countries in working out a ceasefire. The U.S. called for the U.N. Security Council to convene, but Kissinger was unable to build a consensus among the permanent members of the Council-or the warring parties-for a resolution aimed at stopping the fighting. As the week passed without significant progress, Kissinger was obliged to cancel a quick trip to London and Bonn; like détente...
...visited children's hospitals, kissing crippled babies in front of the TV cameras. She flew over the flood-ravaged pampas in order to dramatize the need for relief. During the campaign she made an eight-stop tour of the north. She even managed to enlist the support of her most vocal enemies, the party's left-wing youth. They organized a huge crowd for her at Buenos Aires' Aeroparque airport, which significantly cheered both Peron and Isabelita. In all, it was precisely the kind of stumping Evita made famous among the descamisados (shirtless ones), who loved...
DeBary contends that universities should be trying not only to hold the line on liberal education but also to advance it. "Far from holing up in its own bunker," he asserted, "general education should try to break out into new ground where it can hope to enlist new recruits and find new intellectual sustenance...