Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end it looked not only like a mystery army but a mystery invasion. The operation, it now appeared, was vest-pocket in size. The attack units were apparently only a Commando force-mostly British and quite small indeed. Its purpose seemed to be to join up with Yugoslav and Albanian guerrillas to help cut German escape routes to the north...
...been hold ing a gorge in rain, mud, under enemy fire. But when they were ordered to retire for rest, one protested bitterly. That one was Josip Broz. Soon afterward, he was among a hand-picked group of Communists withdrawn by the Red Army's Military Intelligence to join some anti-Franco guerrilleros behind Franco's lines. He was next heard of in France, working in the section of the underground whose function was to dispatch men from all over Europe and the U.S. to fight in Spain. He did not reappear again until the fascism...
...speech was a solemn, serious, hard-hitting countercharge. Tom Dewey was not going to crack any jokes at the brilliant level of Bob Hope, or any other. Cried he: "I shall not join my opponent in his descent to mudslinging. . . . I will never divide America...
...Crystal Bird Fauset, onetime friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, onetime member of the Pennsylvania Legislature (its first and only Negro woman), quit the Democratic National Committee's offices in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, walked two blocks up Madison Avenue to join the G.O.P. at the Roosevelt Hotel. Said she: "Bob Hannegan is a dictator-a man who is not willing to deal democratically with Negroes...
...College game also on October 7 promises to be a real thriller. Harvard seems primed for something after treating Bates the way they did, and the fellows out at B.C. can be counted on for their traditionally hard game. Plan to take this game in by all means, then join the crowd at the Parker House for a full evening...