Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having read your letter published today [TIME, Nov. 12] to us subscribers, I certainly do want to join you in every good wish to Jim Linen in his new job. I also want to extend congratulations to TIME for regaining the services of one of the ablest men I have ever known-and one of the nicest...
...weeks of waiting on London and Washington had ended at last in a joint policy pronouncement. Its principal points: 1) the U.S. for the first time will join with Britain in a Committee of Inquiry to review the Palestine problem; 2) the Committee will prepare a "permanent solution" (probably trusteeship under the United Nations Organization) for submission to UNO; 3) Palestine as the Jewish homeland will not be considered as the only possible solution for the problem of Jewish suffering...
...Buenos Aires headquarters of the powerful Radical (center) Party, some 5,000 members gathered last week. The question: whether to join the Socialists, Communists and Progressive Democrats in a coalition against Juan Domingo Perón's all-out drive for the Presidency. Suddenly and ineptly, Perón-bossed police burst in and chucked tear-gas bombs. The Radicals joined the coalition...
...freckled, 33-year-old spinster, with a big nose and intense brown eyes, felt drawn to Mohandas Gandhi after reading a book about him. She was Madeline Slade, daughter of British Admiral Sir Edmond Slade. She left England to join Gandhi, became his personal attendant, took the name of Miraben (Sister Mira) from the Rajput Princess Mira who abandoned all to follow the Hindu god Krishna. Miraben was jailed twice for her part in the civil disobedience movement...
...Marshalls one night, Marine Smith found himself with two comrades in a foxhole within earshot of the enemy. In Japanese, he invited confused Jap soldiers to join him. One after another, four of them crawled over; Smith quietly bayoneted them to death. Smith's friends left for another foxhole. Said he: "I guess they thought I was crazy...