Word: enlists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admiral said he would enlist "this nation's best talent" in redesigning the joints on the rocket boosters, one of which obviously failed on the Jan. 28 Challenger flight. Re-evaluations and, if necessary, redesigns would be ordered for all 748 shuttle parts designated "criticality 1," meaning that if they failed the mission would be lost, since these parts had no backup performing the same vital function. When any qualified person "raises his hand" to oppose a launch-go, Truly pledged, "he will be listened to." Truly insisted that his "conservative" flight philosophy would not mean "a namby-pamby program...
More than any other Arab leader apart from the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, King Hussein of Jordan has worked for a negotiated settlement of the explosive Arab-Israeli conflict. Last week, drained after months of unsuccessful efforts to enlist Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, into the peace process, Hussein announced that he had reached "an end to another chapter in the search for peace...
...conventional documentary about the rise and demise of our most successful demagogue. The antique footage of Long on the campaign trail, directing his mating cries at the bedazzled Louisiana electorate, retains its hypnotic power more than a half-century later; he had the great seducer's capacity to enlist his victims' complicity in his lies. The testimony Burns has elicited from the plain people who elected Long Governor and Senator, and were preparing to back his presidential campaign when he was assassinated, makes it clear they have never known a political lover so memorably transporting. Burns dutifully brings on spokesmen...
...handed down from Willys-Overland to Kaiser and then, in 1970, to American Motors. It inspired many AMC hot sellers, including the Wagoneer and the Cherokee, which have outsold the ailing carmaker's other models. As the civilian Jeep disappears, so will its military forebear: the Army plans to enlist a more elaborate vehicle, the Hummer...
Harvard's reputation for spawning successful literad compelled some of its young novelists to enlist for four years. Paul J. Balson '89, who has been working on his novel, "Ramsey," for the past five months, says, "I'm here because T.S. Eliot came here...