Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when liberal and radical elements in Europe as well as the U.S. were stirred by the Sacco-Vanzetti case, he was consul at Geneva. One night an ominous crowd gathered in front of the consulate, shouted imprecations against "American killers." Tuck listened for a while, then slipped out to join the crowd, shouted in flawless French: "Give us the head of the American consul...
...Russian faith, battered but not yet destroyed, that the good men of Britain and the U.S. would join the Red Army against Hitler while there yet was time; that from Russia's allies would yet come the action and the weapons which alone could arm and preserve the Russian faith...
...days. She sold $10 million in war bonds but wound up exhausted in a Washington hospital. Earl Haig, 24, son of the British World War I commander, turned up as a prisoner of war in Italy. Feather-haired, candy-faced Hinda Wassau, veteran stripteuse, swore she was going to join the WAACs. "I don't want to hold any office," she said. "I just want to start fresh from scratch." Cinedirector Cecil B. DeMille, veteran showman, turned up at work on a motorcycle, with his chauffeur in the sidecar...
...hunt may stop at a village four miles from home, send a message to his wife to come in from her garden in the jungle and feed him. Message in drum code: "She is better than the daughter of other tribes, she who stands there. Oyono must not join the fighting, I don't want Oyono to die. Come walk quickly, quickly, I feel hunger not small." Dinner will be waiting when he gets home...
Author Ormsbee's hero is Abner Coe, an American who is forced to join the French in the Maginot Line through the accident of having been born in Paris. In civilian days Abner was a music critic, bedding down when the whim took him with a lady newspaper correspondent...