Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frontiers, in the air, in nearby Africa, the Allies he once mocked had grown terrifyingly powerful. Even his meekest & mildest neighbor, Portugal, nestling in Spain's Atlantic flank, was holding grim and elaborate civil-defense exercises, and rumor ran fast that she might be about to join the Allies. If, in the logic of events, Germany declared war on Portugal, the squeeze would fall on Franco. He knows, better than most, that the Allies owe him no gratitude, that any advance against him would be an advance against Hitler...
Fresh from a great election victory (TIME, July 19), 73-year-old Jan Christiaan Smuts arrived in London last week, the mud of his beloved South Africa still on his boots. As he stepped out of his four-engined plane, Field Marshal and Prime Minister Smuts was invited to join the War Cabinet during his London stay. Said he breezily: "I'll be there...
...Reward. The circus made one trip to Africa, later flew down again to join Pat's Ninth Air Force Bomber Command for the spectacular Ploesti oil refineries raid, the long-range thrust at Wiener-Neustadt. Ted personally led the Liberators on the Wiener-Neustadt show. When they returned to the African base, General Pat was there to greet him with a bottle of whisky for the victory toast...
Bacon & Eggs & Turkey. Early one morning Commando Willkie left his beach position alone in a chauffeured Lincoln. Driving through an obscuring fog, he arrived shortly after 8 at the grey-walled University Club in downtown Los Angeles. There David Faries had gathered a hundred business & professional men to join him in bacon & eggs and to hear him talk turkey off-the-record. For 45 minutes, to the obvious satisfaction of virtually everyone present, he talked, answering in gutty, he-man language (hells & damns were not infrequent) the questions inspired by the doubts that California Republicans had expressed about Willkie since...
...Britain was not going to drop out of the air war. The big planes based there were going to join a vastly intensified air offensive from the south and the west, bringing to Germany a hell of bombing worse than any it had known...