Word: enlistments
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...arrested about 300 criminals in two days, and their visible presence on Baghdad's dark streets was a sign that the lawlessness plaguing the capital will no longer be tolerated. It was also a sign that Washington's new viceroy has far greater authority than did his predecessor to enlist the military in support of the transition effort...
During the war, he took a brief hiatus from the University to enlist, joining the 1258th Engineer Combat Battalion in General George Patton’s Third Army, where he saw action in England, France, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg...
...What you do as much as you can is enlist the citizenry of the city. We've asked them to be more vigilant, to look at things through the prism of Sept. 11. There's been an awful lot of thoughtful calls. We've asked the real estate community to look for people renting an apartment for cash, anyone who might be tampering with the ventilation...
...premiere bewildered me. The movie was attracting giddy attention that was both exciting and unsettling. So there we were--Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and I--jittery and on live talk shows (like acid, only more gruesomely populated), and throughout the day we attempted to deliver George Lucas' message to enlist in his "star war." Harrison was its most apparently able representative; Mark and I were clambering to get up to speed. After all, we were figuring out who we were, forming our public, never-before-aired personas in front of you, perfecting our act by the seat of our talk...
...this day, the ears of Molly M. Simmons ’05 perk up whenever the Naval Academy is mentioned. In June of her senior year, Simmons was all set to enlist. The papers were signed and the Academy had a spot reserved for her. For Simmons, whose father and two sisters are all Harvard alumni, it would have been a huge departure from family tradition. At the last minute—two weeks before she was scheduled to leave for Annapolis—Simmons changed her mind, trading in her regulation blues for bright crimson...