Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last February Francis E. Vincelli tried to join the regular Army and was rejected: his eyesight was not good enough. With a bad case of the haughties, he hit the redeye, was soon good & drunk. Near his home in New York City's Borough of Queens he passed an optician's show window. That was too much for angry Vincelli; he smashed the window. Last week, having paid for the window, he was up in court on a charge of third-degree burglary. His defense: the Army had accepted him after all. Said the Court: "It seems evident...
...most extraordinary sessions any legislative body had ever held, made ready for the opening of a new session of Congress this month. At this session Acting President Castillo must make a decision that will vitally affect Argentina, the U.S. and the world: which world to join in World...
Displaying beautiful teamwork halfway round the world, Messrs. Menzies and Fadden did what they could to simmer the crisis down. Mr. Menzies dictated and Mr. Fadden seconded a put-up-or-shut-up appeal to the Laborites to join up in the National Government. Then the Prime Minister saw to it that Australian Lieut. General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney was quickly upped to second-in-command in the Middle East under General Sir Archibald Wavell...
Seven U.S. colleges this year join 93 private schools in selling education on the installment plan. Devised by a grey-haired businessman, Rudolf Neuberger, the plan may enable many a parent, hard hit by soaring income taxes in World War II, to send his children to a good school. It may also save many a school from the financial disasters which have overtaken Britain's schools since war began (TIME, April...
Calling the theory that England will shortly be defeated by invasion "a black council of despair," Conant suggested that when invasion of Great Britain is imminent or actually under way, the United States would "finally in a last desperate effort to defend the cause of freedom join our forces with the British fleet...