Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some began deserting their ships to join the Fighting French forces of General Charles de Gaulle. By last week the desertions had mounted to 15 to 20 a day; there seemed no stopping the sailors who wanted to fight the Germans at once on any sort of ship...
...week's end it seemed that the twelve interned sailors might be released to join the Fighting French, if no more sailors desert to the Fighting French. The French sailors' ambiguous position was a direct result of the ambiguities of U.S. policy in North Africa...
There is no Crimson entry in the back-stroke, the medley relay, or the individual medley, an event seen solely on tournament programs. Ossie Morton and "Kuaina" Watkins are to swim in the 50 with Eusden, and Watkins and Perry Stearns join him in the 100. Every Crimson entrant except Pastel and Aaron is entered in the 400-yard relay...
...Army's mysterious Office of Strategic Services (known irreverently in Washington as "the cloak & dagger boys"). He took over some 3,000 employes, scores of jealousies and quarrels, innumerable unsolved problems of policy and procedure. One radio vice president gave up a $50,000-a-year job to join OWI, was still waiting months later to know what his duties were. Henry Paynter, onetime Hearst man, working away at his new OWI job,.was amazed when a stranger walked into his office, introduced himself as head of the United Nations news bureau. "That's interesting," said Paynter...
...Captain declared that being in the WAACs is hard work, and that any women who would join them merely because she thinks wearing a uniform is glamorous had better dispel these ideas from her mind...