Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band, and then opening at the Tic Toc here in town after Louis Armstrong departs. If, after that, George has to fall back on such embarrassing jobs as the one he had with Pancho's band at the Copley Plaza last fall, he plans to stay in Boston and join Charlie Vinal's band at the Copley Square (provided that the sponsors' bankrolls haven't been depleted!) on the strength of his belief that playing jazz a couple of nights a week for union scale and taking a day job for the rest is better than making $120 a week...
...have a good job at a shipyard but I would give it up if I could join the Air Forces WACs, but as I will not be 20 until December 1944, I am not eligible for any of the services. Why in the devil don't they lower the age limit...
...listing your reasons why women are not joining the armed forces you mentioned what I believe to be the most important reason: the attitude of the U.S. servicemen themselves. When young girls ask the opinion of their brothers, sweethearts, husbands and friends regarding their enlisting, the summation of all answers is the same: "Stay where you are; don't join...
...suggest that every soldier who can get a woman to join the WACs be given a ten-day furlough, and for each additional one he persuades to volunteer while he is on furlough, he be given a 15-day extension. Certainly a WAC for the duration is worth more to the Army than a few days of any soldier's time...
Howard had learned how to fight from a top-grade teacher. Originally a Pensacola-trained Navy flyer, he resigned his commission to join the A.V.G. Flying Tigers in China under Major General Claire Chennault. He found good cornpany there, became a squadron leader in six months, shot down six Japs. When his China term was up, he came home rail-thin from dengue fever, took three months' leave, then went back to war, this time with the Army Air Forces...