Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Napoleon recalled his Ambassador to Moscow, General de Caulaincourt, in 1811. and explained to him his plan of crushing England by crushing Russia-the only continental power still vigorous enough to join forces with England against...
...people must . . . abandon all heedlessness; they must mobilize themselves and reorganize all their work on new, wartime lines. . . . Further, there must be no room in our ranks for whimperers and cowards, for panic-mongers and deserters; our 'people must know no fear in the fight and must selflessly join our patriotic war of liberation...
...German invasion of Russia caught Nazi propagandists in Latin America napping, they were wide awake last week. By cartoon, pamphlet and voice the call was sounded to join Adolf Hitler's crusade against Communism. Since Latin America is 78% Catholic, the call might have been expected to show results. It did, but the results were not all as intended. Latin Americans started shooting each other...
Words & Weasels. The British and U.S. decision to help Russia and the Pope's refusal to join Adolf Coeur de Lion's crusade kept the Nazi campaign from gaining headway among the more statesmanlike of Latin America's leaders. Argentina's Acting President Ramón S. Castillo joined Brazil's Getulio Vargas and Cuba's Fulgencio Batista in broadcasting good-neighborly greetings to the U.S. on the Fourth of July...
Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard rushed cross-country to his 360-acre Indiana farm when he heard his special breed of hogs was doing poorly, declaring he'd show the veterinarians a thing or two. ∽∽ Joseph Alsop, who gave up his syndicated Washington column to join Naval Intelligence, was ordered to India. ∽∽ Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand, the President's longtime personal secretary, lay ill of neuritis in a Washington hospital, planned a month's rest when...