Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explanations. In Atlantic City, N.J., six-year-old George Patrick McLaughlin of Philadelphia was discovered hiding in a locomotive tender, promptly demanded spinach, explained he was en route to join the Marines and fight the Japs. In Jefferson County, Mo., twelve-year-old Vina Marler Nash, newly married, commented, "It's pretty nice. ... I guess I won't have to go back to school this fall." In Junction City, Kans., Marguerite See, a bus driver, drove with one foot bare, explained, "I can do a smoother job on the clutch...
...Dream World. The moment he hit British soil, Hess demanded to see King George and "the Dukes." He wanted to tell them that Germany was about to invade Russia, to urge them to make peace and join the crusade. He was certain that, once the King and the Dukes decided on peace with Germany, the peace would be immediate...
...nations will be difficult because "we put the emphasis on opportunity; they put it on security." When a reporter asked if he was talking about social security, he said bluntly, "No. In business too. They're interested in cartels and other protective devices. They would like us to join in dividing up world markets, but I told them it wouldn't work. . . . They want only profit, whereas we have always thought of ours as a profit-&-loss system...
...unit holds a peculiar place in the University lineup. They are undergraduates, they join activities, in fact, run a lot of them, and still live under Navy discipline. This group of 900 is now almost as big as the civilian College, and with their added Medical School wing actually outnumber the civvies...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts is proud to join Harvard in welcoming you today. Your presence here at a moment when our countries are engaged in fighting together on a world-wide front tells us more plainly than words that victory in battle alone will not bring lasting peace; that true peace will come only with our better understanding of one another. Such understanding rests upon the knowledge which John Harvard sought to make more widely available...