Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's bells did not join in the joyful clangor. From some of the 1,200 blitzed parishes the bells are gone; others hang in belfries so weakened that they cannot be pulled. From most of Sir Christopher Wren's famed churches in the City of London came no sound. St. Clement Dane's ("Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement's") were still.* Silent, too, were the famous Bow bells of Cheapside, within whose sound all Cockneys were once born...
Biographer André Maurois, onetime liaison officer with the British Army, notable defender of Petain, refugee in Manhattan since the fall of France, prepared to join the Giraud forces in North Africa as a captain...
...Good Safe Place." A standing joke among Coast Guardsmen is that some recruits join up because "it's a good, safe place to fight the war." That the Coast Guard performs many wartime duties be sides guarding the shoreline was revealed this week in other exploits...
...with the violent collapse of their whole army and the loss of their prospects of independence." The mutineers (from the Pennsylvania Line regiments, stationed under Wayne at Morristown, NJ.) rebelled at their lack of pay, food, decent clothing. British General Sir Henry Clinton hoped to persuade the malcontents to join him in Manhattan. The full story of the spying and intrigue is told, for the first time, by Author Van Doren (Secret History of the American Revolution}, but is more likely to appeal to amateur historians than to the general reader...
...Massachusetts, a Right Reverend Monseigneur of the Catholic Church, a Harvard professor, and a chaplain from the Harvard Army Chaplain School gave speeches. The Chaplain's address, no more outstanding than the rest, was a stern outcry against slackening of civilian morale and a warning that while we may join efforts with Russia we must realize that politically communism and democracy are not compatible...