Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Empire and is not ashamed of the word: "I think the expression, British Commonwealth and Empire, may well be found the most convenient means to describe this unique association of races which was built up partly by conquest, largely by consent. . . . The universal ardor of our colonial empire to join in this awful conflict . . . is the first answer that I would make to those ignorant, envious voices who call into question the greatness of the work we are doing throughout the world and which we shall continue...
...Whistling, humming, singing and talking were forbidden. Once when the Bishop tried breaking the no-talking rule, as everyone did, he got "a good wigging from the head warden." Nevertheless he managed to send out word that he would say daily Morning and Evening Prayers, invited his neighbors to join him silently at those hours. He tapped signals on the walls to announce the opening and closing of services. On Sundays and saints' days he celebrated the Holy Communion. For the Host he kept back a piece of bread from the preceding evening meal, substituted water for wine...
...motive was plain: able-bodied Frenchmen in the Reich (1,250,000 war prisoners plus 1,150,000 Nazi-drafted laborers) will not only toil for the New Order but they will be less likely to join the Allied army of liberation when the day of deliverance comes...
...tour, Lucile Turner lives with her husband on a 600-acre farm at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains just outside Lynchburg. There her hus band has some 150 head of pedigreed cattle. The Turners have three children -an Army captain, a boy about to join the Marines, a daughter just graduated from Stephens College, Columbia, Mo. As a war mother, Lucile Turner has recently written several war songs ( We Are Ready, When I Heard the News...
...John Hersey left at an hour's notice from the Navy Department to join General Eisenhower's men in North Africa. He'd had his bags all packed for three weeks, waiting for the call. (The last time I wrote you about Hersey he was just back from Guadalcanal and the sea fight where they sank the carrier Wasp-and since then you may have read his best-selling story of a skirmish in the Solomons, Into the Valley...