Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twelve Registered Nurses" from Atlanta [TIME, Letters, May 7] puzzle me. Do they went their "brothers, cousins, sweethearts and friends" in the service to be dependent on the Medical Corps alone? Also they say these same "brothers, cousins, sweethearts and friends" write them not to join the Army Nurse Corps, that it's no place for a lady. I say it's no place for anyone but a lady...
...part in the Saint-L6 breakthrough. It blasted a path east to Aachen, fought through snowstorms and blizzards. At Rundstedt's breakthrough in December, with the 991h and the hardened 9th and 2nd, it held the Germans at a critical salient shoulder, cleared Bonn, then plunged south to join the bridgehead cut out by the 9th Armored Division at Remagen...
...down more than a score of the 82nd's transport planes. All but one battalion landed in the wrong spot; skeptics wanted to write finis to the whole idea. But the 82nd persisted. It showed what it could do when it moved 250 miles in eight hours to join the attack on Salerno. When U.S. troops marched into Naples three weeks later, the cocky 82nd...
...scheme of separate surrender was no artificial fabrication; it had its roots in the fears and beliefs of the German soldiery and people. On the U.S. First Army front, many German units seriously expected to join the U.S. battle line, march with the Americans against the Russians. An entire German regiment had kept its arms with this end in view, was genuinely astonished when the Americans declined to cooperate...
...district. In college, with leave to advance as fast as he was able, he spent just two years as an undergraduate; he made fast friends among the many foreign students, lived most of the time in a campus boarding club (although his father constantly urged him to join one of the few remaining fraternities). After graduation, Peter wangled a federal grant for research, finally won his M.A. two years later at the age of 21-in June...