Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mann sends his manuscripts piecemeal to his translator, who works on them almost as hard (eight hours a day) as their author does. Mrs. Lowe bakes her own bread (see cut), keeps house for her husband, Dr Elias Avery Lowe, an Oxford paleographer, who joined the staff of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study in 1936. Her hyphenated surname is the result of her mistaken notion that married Britons always join surnames...
...Headquarters will be near Berchtesgaden, where Hitler, Mussolini, selected quislings and lesser German dignitaries can defy the Allies from the Wagnerian Berghof. Arms, supplies and lavish radio equipment are already being gathered. The radio will be used to guide a vast network of underground fanatics, enrolled under the slogan: "Join the permanent fight for European freedom...
...long time since he had been back. At 18 Mitchell Paige had left his home in Mifflin, Pa., to join the Marines. He served in China, the Philippines, returned in 1941 and married his boyhood sweetheart, dark-haired Stella Forsyth. Then came the Solomons and New Britain. On Guadalcanal Sergeant Mitchell Paige became the tenth Marine to win the Congressional Medal of Honor in World...
...Germany, 50,000 ragged men, deserters since the invasion from forced labor gangs, were reported roaming in little bands, harassing farms and little villages at night, heading grimly toward the German lines and a chance to join the Underground. From the wooded hills around Pinczow in southern Poland, guerrillas swooped on the town one wet and windy night last month, set free 500 fellow-fighters, awaiting execution. An old story was revived in neutral capitals: Hitler, Göring & Goebbels keep a long-range private plane in readiness to whisk them to Japan...
Some 750 of the best economic engineers of 45 nations went to the White Mountains of New Hampshire last week - but not for a vacation. They went to Bretton Woods to join, the British and Americans in batting one another over the head with blueprints for a world stabilization fund...