Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates were not hesitant about making their views known. In the tempestuous uproar of policy-drafting committees, political ideologies and regional prejudices clashed in wide-open, no-holds-barred debate. Cried one exasperated woman to her husband: "Oh, why don't you just join the American Legion...
Last week the Browder star was shining even brighter. Off to Russia to join Fallen Angel Browder was his most ardent disciple, a shy, little-known, well-heeled U.S. businessman named Abraham A. Heller, who was also the longtime financial angel of U.S. radicals...
...often must fade out for the sake of the plot. The "situation" routines, a part of the permanent repertoire of the Marx Brothers, were few. Groucho's gags, when he grabbed the opportunity to pull one, were in character. When asked by a seductive Parisienne: "Won't you join me?" he answers, "Why are you coming apart?" The love angle between Charles Drake, a strapping young Frenchman with uncombed hair and Lois Collier, and ex-horse opera heroine, is happily , hardly enough to keep balcony couples interested...
...Brush. Terrain over which the Truman Administration hunted them was thick with underbrush. Clausen's Case Co. has had plenty of labor strife. The nub of the present trouble is a letter written by union leaders in 1937 which recognized: 1) the right of any employe to join a union of his choosing, 2) the right of non-union workers to deal individually with the company. Triumphantly Clausen declared that the letter guaranteed that Case could remain an open shop. Union leaders declared the letter obsolete, and negotiations promptly broke down...
...Cornwall Canal, pickets hurled mud and clayballs at protecting "Mounties," as the motorship Redwood entered the lowest lock. Crewmen left the ship to join the strikers, forced the skipper to go back. Soon 18 ships were blocked in the canal...