Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tomorrow Harvard students have a chance to join in this pledge by participating in the ceremonies. Next year they will be called upon for more concrete sacrifices, but in the interim they may well demonstrate their adherence to the cause for which they will fight...
...went to West Point. There he got good marks in hydraulics, history and steam heat, broke his leg playing football, became a gymnast and performed giant swings. Then he went to Texas to join the 19th Infantry, met and married a Denver girl named Mamie Doud...
...World War I he served as a lieutenant colonel at the tank-training center in Pennsylvania. He would have liked to join the Air Corps but Mamie Eisenhower had objected. The war was scarcely over when Colonel Eisenhower became convinced that a new world conflict was brewing and he set himself to studying modern warfare with the assiduity with which some men study storms, trying to figure out what is coming so that they can handle...
...leaders of the French millions who hate Vichy were quick to seize the political weapons the U.S. had given them. Broadcasting from London, General Charles de Gaulle called to French North African troops: "Forward! The great moment has come. Help our allies. Join them without reserve. Everywhere the enemy gasps and wavers." Vichy admitted a De Gaullist uprising at Casablanca, claimed to have overcome it, subsequently confessed that a battalion was still in revolt...
...assignment and was moved to write: "Of the medals passed around in this war, some should be reserved for the handful of correspondents here. [They] have proved they're just as tough as marines-otherwise they couldn't cover this war." Tyree modestly declined an invitation to join the Guadalcanal Press Club. The initiation ceremony was too strenuous: the members take the tenderfoot out and get him shot...