Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sterling areas. She has reduced her dollar imports by 25%; the other major OEEC nations by only 15%.* Last week Cripps proposed that the others should make a further reduction of 10% to match Britain. At this point ECA's Averell Harriman, who had been itching to join the discussions, was invited in, and promptly threw his weight with the continental high-volume traders...
Russia has shown no signs whatever of going to war over the Atlantic Pact. She has fought it tooth & nail, but only with defensive acts of desperation, e.g., international threats of Communist treason. In Rome last week, when Premier De Gasperi announced his cabinet's decision to join the pact, a small mob of Communists in front of the Parliament building shouted, "Down with warmongers and wars!" and "There are pillars in Rome whereon to hang traitors!" They were joined by neo-Fascist youths (members of the Italian Social Movement). The neo-Fascists objected to the pact because...
...religious liberties. Protesting against "the insidious pattern by which Communist and other totalitarian regimes are seeking to force the church into a position of subservience," the report also contained a surprise package. This was a call "for Protestants and Roman Catholics at the highest level of leadership" to join forces against the anti-church methods used by Communists...
...Crimson Stompers, a Dixieland band, will play at the jazz concert. Trumpeter Paul Watson of the Vinal Rhythm Kings has promised to join them...
...into a strong foul wind from Dixie. The noisome success of the filibuster means not only the postponement of civil rights legislation, but a severe loss in prestige for Truman Democrats. Perhaps more important, the fears that Senate Torics on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line would join forces to balk Administration action have been sadly justified...