Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reaching across Africa and into the Caucasus, preparing to strike at Suez. A huge pincers movement threatened to put the entire Middle East in Axis hands. Japan, victorious in Burma, stood at the threshold of an almost defenseless, politically confused India. The enemy had a very good chance to join hands; the result might easily have been the complete defeat of Russia, Britain, the U.S. and China...
...they could not at the time of Casablanca, for the job to be done in the Far East. It was therefore significant that Field Marshal Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell and Major General Claire L. Chennault had been called in from India and China to join the discussions. Last week, Winston Churchill sent Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek a message which could be taken as the first fruit of the Washington conference: ". . . The United Nations . . . will surely drive the Japanese invader from the soil of China." President Roosevelt, in a similar message, expressed the hope that the offensive...
...rugged Jackson Hole country, donned an old shirt, blue denim pants and cowboy boots. He put on his big black Stetson with the chin strap, grabbed his trusty six-shooter and climbed aboard his trusty white mare. In the fresh morning air he rode through the fertile valley to join a posse of ranchers...
...arising in Europe. But men can no longer bank without reservation on their old assumptions that Franco and Mussolini and all of their kind were irrevocably committed against the Allies. Instead, the Allies must face the possibility that many a Fascist, many a bad-weather enemy will try to join the winning side-and will offer immediate and temporarily useful aid to that side. In a time of change, new facts and new alignments will have to be recognized and accepted-or rejected...
...would become a surgeon should join the army and follow it," said Hippocrates. In Victories of Army Medicine (Lippincott; $3), published last week, Colonel Edgar Erskine Hume shows that surgery has been only one great branch of U.S. Army healing. His book is the first general history of U.S. Army Medicine...