Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficulties, and the men are learning to respect each other as fellow Americans fighting in a common cause. Secondly, the mixed regiment has been proposed as a purely voluntary group. Those men who have not yet grown out of their natural racial prejudices will not be forced to join. Any difficulties the Army may encounter in organizing such a unit will find multifold compensation in the increased morale of all the nation's races. The equitability of this scheme can best be summed up in the words of Professor Alonzo Myers of New York University, "a man who is good...
...living at present south of the Rio Grande, who had to flee their native countries, will be forever grateful to the Latin American nations for the kind and generous hospitality they are receiving. The majority of these people, however, having families and relatives in the U.S., will try to join their relations as soon as the war is over. Why not let them now prove their eagerness to help...
Worried Britons learned last week that the indomitable Winston Churchill, who was 68 last November, had snorted, heaved and fought his way through a mild but dangerous attack of pneumonia. Said the Evening Standard: "The most crustacean of Mr. Churchill's critics will join in the rejoicing at the news. . . . The anxiety of the past few days has not received much public attention but it has been widely and deeply felt...
...will find the Harvard graduate students here (practically all of them in senior ROTC garb) most friendly and accomodating. You will be invited to join their Student Club and possibly fracas with them in a Harvard smoker later inn the month...
...Prohibition that brought Mencken perhaps his richest experiences and inspired perhaps his most uplifting prose. One day he went with Publisher Alfred Knopf to hear the Bach Choir at Bethlehem, Pa., and "our tonsils became so parched that we could barely join in the final Amen." Rushing frenziedly to a strange speakeasy, they found themselves without a card of introduction. Mencken did not hesitate. Before the eye at the peephole he held his music score. The eye read...