Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belvoir, as at other training stations, Engineer recruits get their primary soldiering in big doses, soon pass on to specialized training. Some will join combat regiments and battalions, will go into battle with infantry and artillery, lugging in motor trains a fantastic assortment of bulldozers, water-purification outfits, pneumatic drills, earth-borers. Some will join ponton (Engineer for pontoon) companies, will learn to sweat hip-deep in rivers, laying bridges for the infantry. Others will go to topographical (mapmaking) outfits, to railroad-operating companies, to general service regiments, to camouflage battalions, dump-truck companies, water-supply battalions, shop companies, depot...
...State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain demanding the reinstatement of Pierre Laval in the Cabinet. Against U.S. Ambassador Alexander Wilbourne Weddell's warning that the U.S. would do its utmost for Britain, Spain's newspapers started an Axis-inspired campaign against Portugal, hinted that Spain would soon join the Axis. Object: Gibraltar...
Pravda also took the trouble to deny that Germany had put pressure on Russia to sign, stated flatly that the Kremlin had refused an invitation to join the Axis last November. In other words, Russia was playing a lone hand, with the object of keeping out of trouble. If by keeping out of trouble Russia got others into trouble, that would be so much the better...
...make up the entire list of sponsors, a large percentage of whom sincerely believe in the concept of America as "the arsenal of democracy" but who believe even more strongly in fighting for peace. For today, at least, the isolationists have cast off their personal prejudices to join in a fight directed solely against convoys and an A. E. F. They are sincere in their promise not to drag isolationism into the agenda...
...National Christian Mission (TIME, April 14), Dr. Otterbein went after the unchurched. He got them by-1) tireless pastoral work, 2) worship, not revivals, 3) never pressing membership on any of the thousands he invited to attend a service. Says ex-Salesman Otterbein: "When a man is ready to join the church, he will make the move himself. Sure you can push a man into joining, but when you do, that is the last time you will see him." His congregation, which includes 19 nationalities, also has a high percentage of onetime lapsed members of other denominations, including...