Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Paris, Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre reported that inasmuch as New Year's Day falls on Saturday, normally the heaviest work day of the week for overseas bureau-men, any undue celebrating the night before would automatically bring its own punishment. In Madrid, Correspondent Piero Saporiti expected to join the crowd in the Puerta del Sol (Madrid's Times Square), dodging the used electric light bulbs that Madridians store away for this occasion, whirring a wooden zambomba which gives out a deafening clack, and brandishing a bunch of grapes over his head (you eat twelve grapes...
...national political convention. Such relaxation is the exception rather than the rule in the Indian National Congress. The Congress is not only India's biggest political party (10½ million members), it is also the largest association in the world of people pledged to puritanism (Indian brand). To join, one must give up liquor. If he entertains political ambitions, he must give up wearing anything but khadi (handspun cloth), and content himself with a modest salary. Recently the Congress press has been scandalized by rumors that Indian ambassadors abroad serve liquor at parties...
...modern U.S. architecture, finally (at 79) got grudging recognition from the august American Institute of Architects (of which he is not a member): their 16th Gold Medal Award in 42 years. Apparently, it had not been unanimous. Blurted the Westchester (N.Y.) chapter: "His achievements do not entitle him to join the company of such men as McKim [Boston Public Library], Post [Wisconsin State Capitol], Bacon [Lincoln Memorial], Goodhue [Nebraska State Capitol], Cret [Washington's Federal Reserve Building], and Sullivan [Chicago's Stock Exchange...
...Christians would join the Wise Men we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised and aid the neighbor in his need. Do not boast that you have built churches and endowed masses. God will say: 'What to me are your churches and masses? . . . Who told you to build churches? I have set before you spiritual temples...
...brick station-house with a mud-walled village behind it, Nationalist forces had just set up a forward headquarters. Under General Li Yen-nien, commander of the Sixth Army Group, two field armies, the 99th. and the 54th, about 50,000 strong, were pressing northwestward in an attempt to join hands with the Twelfth Nationalist Army Group at Suhsien, 25 miles away. In a battered G.M.C. ten-wheeler truck, we lurched after them...