Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conduct inimical to the welfare of his country. The Premier charged that Leopold had 1) expected a German victory; 2) interviewed Adolf Hitler after Belgium's capitulation to arrange postwar collaboration with Germany; 3) refused to back the Belgian Government in Exile; 4) rejected advice to escape and join the Maquis...
...Desert Fox. In 1917, Wavell was sent to Palestine to join the staff of Lord Allenby, master of desert warfare and conqueror of the Turks. The association marked a turning point in Wavell's career. He emerged from the campaign with: 1) an intense admiration for the military genius of Allenby, which later flowered in the biography, Allenby: A Study in Greatness; 2) two hard-won Turkish nicknames -"the desert fox" and "the greatest bloodhound." In a terse footnote in his poetry anthology. Other Men's Flowers, Wavell recalls how Lord Allenby, who had just received news...
Perhaps. But Dominion status would confer undeniable advantages. India would join a free concert of nations who wielded an influence in world councils more potent than the sum of their parts. Industrial India, with a swiftly rising output (mostly steel and textiles), would expand most rapidly under the careful nurturing of imperial preferences. If the princes* came in (as they almost certainly would in time), the Dominion of India would become a mighty anchor in the storms that might ravage postwar Asia...
...Colonel William Paley, peacetime head of CBS, was called in to set things straight. He negotiated with the BBC for equipment, promised that ABSIE would clear out 90 days after V-E day. Robert Sherwood, then OWI's overseas director, arranged the programs; he said that ABSIE would "join with the BBC in telling the truth of this war to our friends in Europe - and to our enemies...
Master Plan. In Hollywood, heptagamous David Hardy (seven wives, 0 divorces) proposed to plead guilty, join the Army, take out a $10,000 life-insurance policy, let the judge collect the proceeds if Hardy was killed and apportion it among his wives...