Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czech people "the freedom of conscience and a lofty ideal of justice." That was his line of thought, but his line of action was to work hard for the dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. When it fell, only Habsburgs, sentimentalists and thoroughly wrongheaded people failed to join in the rejoicing...
...months-the pledged campaign support of organized labor. In Chicago, the A.F.L.'s paladins met, formed the Committee of Labor Executives for the Re-election of Truman. George M. Harrison of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks declared that all "but two or three" presidents of A.F.L. internationals would join.* This week, the C.I.O. executive board threw its full weight to the Democratic ticket. As an added fillip, the A.D.A., which had done its best to displace the President at Philadelphia, pledged him its support. Harry Truman had cause to be heartened. At week's end, tanned and refreshed...
Because no Russian had showed up at the get-together, the Peruvian Ambassador wrote the Soviets' charge d'affaires, Nikolai Belokhvostikov, inviting him to join in. A week passed without an answer. Then Benavides' secretary phoned the Soviet embassy; he explained what was planned, suggested that the letter must have gone astray, and added that he was sure that Belokhvostikov would want his name on the box. "It is not customary," snapped the Russian as he hung...
...what it could, formed a World Federation for Mental Health. Its ambitious aim: to gain for mental hygienists a larger role in determining relations between governments. W.F.M.H. will cooperate with such United Nations groups as WHO and UNESCO. Russia was not represented at London, but will be invited to join...
...weeks the Chief and the Arch-Vicar encourage the most indiscriminate promiscuity so that the state may gain manpower; afterwards, when the helots are put to work, all sexual contact is strictly forbidden. Poole is urged to join the California priesthood, which can be done by submitting to an operation that will forever remove potency. But in the meantime Poole has discovered a luscious vessel named Loola, who has taught him a few things. Preferring Loola to eunuch lordship, Poole escapes from Los Angeles towards a lonely northern outpost where, it is rumored, men are still...