Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guided by another revelation, Mother Ann and eight disciples came to America. Their first settlement was a swampy tract of land near Albany, N.Y., which the little band of English artisans laboriously cleared and drained. There they waited for the followers whom Mother Ann prophesied would join them in the New World. In 1780, the followers began to show up. From then on, the Shakers slowly spread, settling together in communities called "families" from Maine to southwest Kentucky. Between 1840 and 1860, they attained their peak membership. Their peculiar religious practices caused the world's people to persecute them...
...went ahead to build and garrison forts, plant crops along the route, prepare the road. Wagon trains were spaced to conserve grazing land, and the flock was cheered at night by Captain Pitts's Brass Band, which had been converted en masse in England and had come to join the trek...
...lingering doubts about Communist intentions. From his hiding place he sent a message to the Communist paper Rizospastis, calling for the "creation in free democratic areas of Greece of a free democratic government." This week the Greek Government announced that forces had crossed the border from Albania to join guerrillas fighting the Greek Army in northern Greece. Moreover, the Government claimed, a leftist international brigade including men recruited from all over Europe was gathering in Albania. While the U.S. Congress delayed in voting the aid to Greece which President Truman had called for three months ago, Communists were acting...
...general practitioner. He is also a trained surgeon, and a good one. The Mayo brothers, who had been his best friends ever since his graduation from Rush Medical College, often came to Winona from their Rochester Clinic, 42 miles away, to watch his operations. The Mayos wanted him to join their clinic. But Dr. Heise said no; a doctor, he explained to his five sons, values his independence...
Papa's union even included employers. He had found it advisable, in the case of small companies with only two partners, to make one partner join the union. Then he would "bargain" for the union with the other partner. In the face of this power, John McCauley, Brooklyn potato wholesaler, signed his contract without looking at it. "The union said everyone else was signing...