Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York his wife and daughter waited for their first reunion since the Gestapo snatched him from them and his small business in Köpenick, Germany, one night in 1938. The pretty, young French girl holding her four-month-old son was Mrs. Edith Augustine Delaby Waterbury, going to join her ex-G.I. husband, Charles E. Waterbury of Newark...
...Lord Randolph Churchill, as Secretary of State for India in 1885, ordered a British expeditionary force to depose Burma's mad King Theebaw and formally join the country, which had been under British influence for 60 years, to the Empire...
Since a desperate National Assembly had voted him the Premiership a fortnight ago (after M.R.P. and Communist candidates had been defeated), France's grand old man of Socialism had been absorbed in futile attempts to form a Cabinet. The Radicals and their affiliates refused to join a Government which did not include the Rightists; the Communists refused to enter a Government which did. Formula after formula had been shattered by their rock-like intransigence...
Search for Herring. None of Britain's returning daughters had been able to adjust herself to life in Canada. It was also apparent that a few had not tried. One bride, Minette ("Mickey") Bowen, 20, who had persuaded her husband to join her in England, could hardly wait to get back to her shabby home with her parents in London's slummy, dreary East End. She told reporters that she had missed the English pub ("Even a lemonade tastes better in a pub") and cuddling up to her mother in bed at night...
...couple of other topnotch directors. George Stevens (Penny Serenade, The More the Merrier) is already at work. William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver, Wuthering Heights), under contract to make one postwar picture for Samuel Goldwyn, turned out the excellent The Best Years of Our Lives before he could join...