Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Cvetkovitch speaks no German; Hitler's Interpreter Dr. Paul Schmidt does not echo the Führer's screams. And Foreign Minister Cincar-Markovitch, who speaks fluent German, is known to be the most patient man in Yugoslavia. Herr Hitler said: Yugoslavia would be wise to join the Axis. The two men said: We shall tell Regent Prince Paul what you say. Herr Hitler said: I should like Yugoslavia's assurance that she will do nothing if Germany invades Bulgaria and attacks Greece; I might like permission to send troops across Yugoslav soil to Greece; when...
...England," but that, despite the pull of his "inborn prejudices," he had concluded that England's cause is the cause of freedom, of the United States and of Christianity. Tired of talk, of the vexation of spirit produced by mere babble, Father Sheehy left for Jacksonville, Fla. to join the Navy as a chaplain...
...Italian Riviera to meet Benito Mussolini and his son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who undoubtedly would remind the Spaniards of all the favors Italy did for Franco's Spain when Italy seemed bigger potatoes. As Vichy denied Marshal Petain would join the conference, the Frenchman started for a "few days' rest" at his wife's villa, a short drive from the Italo-Spanish rendezvous...
Obsessed since childhood with a sense of exile, she called on literary exiles, among them British Poet Wystan Hugh Auden and his wife Erika Mann. Soon she was invited to join a freakish household of esthetes in Brooklyn Heights. There, sickly, shy and elflike, she presided over a dinner table whose steady boarders were Auden, Anglo-Irish Poet Louis MacNeice (now back in England for military service), British Composer Benjamin Britten, Wisconsin-raised George Davis (literary editor of Harper's Bazaar). The old brownstone became a shabby Mecca for their friends. Russian Painter Pavel Tchelitchew decorated its walls, symphonies...
Furthermore, it would be far better in its relations with the public for Harvard to join the others in applying for N.Y.A. aid, than to remain aloof and possibly be considered plutocratic...