Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WACs it is 44 points, but a WAC may get a discharge to join a discharged soldier-husband, no matter how low her score. A holder of the Congressional Medal of Honor may get his discharge whenever he asks...
...From Paris came the announcement that the A.P. had been suspended from filing any further news from the European Theater of Operations. A few took this as an indication that A.P. might have been wrong. But A.P., hot under the collar and sure of its facts, rushed in to join the issue. Cried A.P. President Kent Cooper, determined crusader for freedom of the press: "This suppression cuts squarely across the fundamental rights respecting freedom of information. . . . Vigorous representations have been made. . . . The right of peoples everywhere to know is at stake...
...Army, which hopes to cut G.I. military chores to a minimum, hopes to have its sport program going full blast in 30 days. If British, French, Polish, Dutch, Australian and New Zealand troops join in as expected, the program may lead to Allied championships that will dwarf the peacetime Olympic Games...
...chance that the trained oilmen and their equipment were on hand for the Tarakan invasion. For more than a year they had quietly been gathering in the Southwest Pacific, where they stood by in readiness to join the first strike at any one of the oil-producing islands of the rich Netherlands East Indies. As the engineers waited, they watched with satisfaction the growing stockpile of oil-well machinery arriving from...
When Germany declared war and even the Social Democrats voted the war credits, Hitler was transported. Since he was an Austrian, he asked for and received permission to join a Bavarian regiment. The war was wonderful. The army was more wonderful. Hitler was made a corporal, received an Iron Cross, was wounded, and later gassed. While he was recuperating in a hospital near Berlin, news came of the German Revolution of 1918, and of the Armistice that was to save Germany from Allied invasion. Hitler buried his face in his pillow and wept. Then he decided to give...