Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...landing wave. ("That deal turned my hair snow white.") And when our Marines landed on Bougainville itself November 1, Chickering was once again on the job-watched from the bridge of his transport as our men swarmed ashore ("They made you proud to be an American")-was permitted to join them right after they had won their beachhead...
William S. Paley, elegant-dressing president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, was ready for shipment overseas to join OWI's psychological warfare crews in the Mediterranean area. Off & on for a week he had been doing muscle building, studying pamphleteering, intelligence gathering, short-wave receiving at the indoctrination school on the vast Marshall Field estate on Long Island. Cartier, the dazzling Manhattan jewelry firm, had finished...
...little English. Recently he flew to Naples to invite new strength into his Government. Particularly, he asked bearded, 70-year-old Count Carlo Sforza, who had returned to Italy after 16 years of exile, and the potbellied, stubby-haired philosopher and elder statesman, 77-year-old Benedetto Croce, to join with...
...himself and for Croce, Sforza indicated a willingness to join the Government-but only if the King were thrown out. A Regency which skipped Crown Prince Umberto and alighted on the six-year-old Prince of Naples might be acceptable, he said, pending the day when all of Italy could decide on a monarchical or republican government. But what the beaten and heartsick people of Italy needed most of all, said Sforza, was at least one dynamic and truly democratic act that would fan the flames of hope and national pride. That act, he plainly implied, was abdication...
Carol of Rumania, now of Mexico, called on his countrymen to revolt and join the United Nations, only two weeks after he had hired Pressagent Russell Birdwell to build him up as a democrat. Birdwell released the call to the news papers, appended a note announcing that he had dutifully registered with the Department of Justice as Carol's agent, added: "The fact should not be construed as approval of the United States Government of the contents of this release...