Word: join
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...They are at liberty to join whatever organization they wish. One hopes that men in responsible positions will act with Christian discretion...
Since 1925 the British Communist Party has repeatedly asked that its members be permitted to join the Labor Party en masse, on the condition that they promise to abide by all official Labor Party decisions. Each time, the petition has been refused by the Labor Party's Executive Committee, with the comment that British Communists were tied by the Comintern to Moscow...
...wild mountains behind Tirana, baggy-trousered clansmen gathered last week, 80,000 strong, knives in their sashes, rifles across their backs. In the villages a restive folk hanged Benito Mussolini in effigy. Schoolboys ran off to the hills to join the guerrillas. Fearful Italian troops clapped hundreds in jail, closed the schools, imposed curfews on the villages. Like the rest of subjugated Europe, the smallest Balkan nation was girding for liberation...
Prelude. Before the task that was dropped in 1914 and was fumbled through the '20s can be picked up again by the U.S. and Britain and such others as may be in a position to join them, certain public attitudes in the U.S. must undergo a change...
...Voyetekhov's book are several previously unreported facts, such as that a body of the defenders on the south fought their way past Balaclava and into the Crimean hills to join the partisans; that the last handful of defenders on the north dove into the sea and swam toward death when their ammunition was gone; that ruined Sevastopol had a quisling named Vasily Nikitin, appointed "Burgomaster" by the Germans. It is more illuminating to know that Voyetekhov found "No pasarán," the motto of Madrid, scrawled on a wall in Sevastopol; that "Snakes!" is an exclamation of Russian...