Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proceeded to build his own foreign-policy platform. He came out flatly for U.S. participation in "a cooperative organization of sovereign nations. . . . The major purpose of such an institution must be to establish a reign of law among nations. . . . Personally, I have always felt that the United States should join the World Court...
...this stood a stubborn fact of power politics: Greece is in the British sphere and Moscow knows it. The Kremlin can plan to cast a spell on Yugoslavia, but it cannot hope to manage Greece-unless the British so misplay their cards as to force the Greeks to join a Balkan Federation, cued from Moscow...
...broadcasting station in England. OWI Overseas Director Robert E. Sherwood told all the peoples of Europe about it last week, as the all-American transmitters opened up for the first time. Said he: "This is the American Broadcasting Station in Europe. . . . We Americans are here to join with the BBC in telling the truth of this war to our friends in Europe -and to our enemies. . . ." He warned against premature action, promised that Gen. Eisenhower from England and Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson from the Middle East would jointly announce the invasion...
...rest, any frog may look like a winner. Neither giants nor runts are apt to be champions. Frogs are simply observed in their natural surroundings, and chosen on the basis of performance. Once they join a stable, they are kept in dark, damp, healthful surroundings. Just before being sent into competition, they are subjected to enforced idleness...
Under Japanese noses a strong contingent of U.S. carriers and warships had come secretly-apparently from the Pacific-to join British, French and Dutch units. Last week this brand-new force gave the Japanese the hardest-hitting raid they had seen in this area since the summer...