Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This afternoon Seegar will be alone with his banjo and his voice when he lets forth in Emerson. Tomorrow night, however, a bevy of his singing cohorts will join him in a "Hootenanny" in New England Mutual Hall. Jenny Hill, Tom Glazer and Brownie McGhee, popular songsters, will lend their talents to the folk concert...
...South Africa, however, the readers were lapping it up, and editors shoved other news aside. An irresistible exception was the story of two teen-aged daughters of a Cape Town railroad laborer, who had simultaneously turned to boys. The younger promptly decided to leave a girls' seminary and join the army. But as the Vanguard finally sidled up to her Cape Town wharf, 1,200 other less protean schoolgirls, dressed in their best white, lined up to form the word "Welcome" on the side of Signal Hill. Some 200,000 more South Africans stood in the sweltering...
...headquarters last year spent only $35,000, donated by members). Pledged to help other alcoholics, members do little proselyting, help only when they are called on. Before A.A., all but 5% of alcoholics were considered hopeless. Of A.A.'s members, some 50% never touch a drop after they join; 25% get on the wagon after one or two slips...
...burying ground contains two anomalies Samuel McChord Crothers, a great Unitarian minister and essayist, is buried here by his own request, though he was not even born until after the graveyard had retired from active service. In a far corner, near where Garden Street and Massachusetts Avenue join, lies an ancient mile stone proclaiming on one side over the date 1734 that the distance to Boston is eight miles and on the other side over the date 1794 that it is two and a quarter miles. Obviously there had been some improvements in transportation across the Charles...
...reaction is equally bad -that a situation in which evils are remediable by courageous democratic action is just as bad as one in which there is not the slightest possibility of such action-must in effect be regarded as unconscious allies of the Stalinists. . . . They are always willing to join with the Stalinists in attacking the evils of Western democracy, they refuse to associate themselves with liberal criticism of dictatorial political practices in Russia. In effect, they believe that capitalist democracy at its best is less desirable than Russian totalitarianism at its worst...