Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secessionist Ross urged fellow twin citizens and Northwestern Ontario to quit Ontario, to join neighboring Manitoba, whose capital, Winnipeg, is only 400 miles away. Acting Mayor J. E. Fryer thought it a good idea, cried: "The greatest frontier in Canada is being governed by people who don't know and don't care." In Port Arthur, another stouthearted Westerner, Mayor Arthur Cox, wanted Manitoba to seize all of Ontario as far east as Sudbury, 700 miles away...
...newcomers expect about 20 more monks from Kentucky to join them. They will carry on the agricultural life for which the Cistercians (of which the Trappists are a part) have been famous since the Order was founded in 11th Century France. The Georgia brothers will raise Holstein cattle, pigs, poultry, grains, vegetables. They also hope to pro duce the Kentucky abbey's famed Port du Salut cheese...
...where it had come from. A mighty ally of Czechoslovakia had advanced within a hundred miles of her eastern frontier. Five years, to the week, after German boots had hit the cobblestones of Prague, and the solar plexus of the world, the Czechoslovak Government ordered its people to join, in "an armed uprising," the approaching "Army of Liberation...
Just at the moment when Russia needed a Pole to head its Polish counterpart of the Committee for German Liberation, Novelist Wasilewska turned up in Moscow after reportedly tramping hundreds of miles from Poland to join the Red Army, in which she is a colonel...
...been in love with Tracy Deen, the son of Maxwell's doctor, since she was six years old. Now, when he is home from the war, with his college career broken off, with his father urging him to become a doctor and his mother after him to join the church, their love affair has grown into a deeper companionship. He also likes to talk to her. Strange Fruit begins (and reaches its most moving passages) with Nonnie's discovery that she is pregnant and that she wants to bear Tracy's child. Miss Smith handles well...