Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rugger fans and curious spectators will get a taste of typical British sportsmanship once the game is over. Instead of going through the American post-game routine of a rubbing-down and removing cumbersome equipment, the teams will join in drinking beer after the final whistle...
Later, class-wide elections would pick Smoker and Jubilee Committees whose chairmen would join the executive "cabinet" of the Union Committee. The 12-man cabinet would serve as a core group to the bulky Union Committee...
...Fight Has Just Begun. Italy, invited to join the new Atlantic union, bucked through the week's most savage and stinging easterly squall. For 52 filibustering hours in a turbulent Chamber of Deputies, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists and Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists tried to block Premier Alcide de Gas-peri's request for permission to accept the Western invitation. "You buffoon! You infamous one!" screamed Togliatti at De Gasperi. Mass fist fights spotted the debate. Infuriated Communists brandished chairs, hurled desk drawers. One partisan jumped across four benches, tramped on the heads...
...sound & fury failed. Kept alert by strong black coffee, sleeping by turns inside the chamber, the anti-Communists outlasted their opponents. By a brisk vote of 342-170, De Gasperi sailed through with authority to join the Atlantic pact (he had still to win Senate approval). Togliatti bawled: "You will have to reckon with the Italian people!" Fellow Traveler Nenni echoed: "The fight has just begun!" Government supporters triumphantly sang the national anthem-"Brothers of Italy ... of Italy awakened." Marxists responded with Garibaldi's defiant old war chant-"Foreigners, get out of Italy...
...hour this week, Christians throughout the U.S. will join in a common effort. The goal: raising $10 million to help rebuild the churches and charities of Europe and Asia and to find a place in the world for thousands of displaced persons. The means: a single, hour-long radio program to be broadcast on Saturday, March 26 (10-11 p.m.) over all the stations of at least three major networks, followed by a special collection in 76,000 churches the next morning...