Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must ask you, Madam," said the Muse of History, "to stop dancing up & down on this roof. These old palaces are scarcely more substantial than you ghosts. I am glad to see that Marxism has had the same psychotherapeutic effect on you as on so many neurotics who join the Communist Party. But your notions about Russia and Stalin are highly abnormal. All right-thinking people now agree that Russia is a mighty friend of democracy. Stalin has become a conservative. In a few hours the whole civilized world will hail the historic decisions just reached beneath your feet...
...fighters knew they had a tough opponent in Vafiades, who uses the nom de guerre of "General Markos." Born 41 years ago at Kastononv, in Asia Minor, he worked as a bricklayer, painter, carpenter, grocer boy, street vendor, real-estate clerk, army private, tobacco worker, journalist. In 1924 he joined the Communists in Macedonia and edited a Communist workers' publication. His police file shows that he has been jailed at least eight times since 1929; that he is 5 ft. 7 in. tall, lean and muscular; that he has blue eyes, wavy chestnut hair and a mustache that takes...
Joan Bennett and producer-husband Walter Wanger informed the press that she would be having a baby come June-to join her daughter by her first husband, her daughter by her second, and her daughter by Wanger...
...Charge of States Affairs, last week saw a chance to get rid of some of the princely states that pimple India. In little Nilgiri, near the east coast, Hindu Congress Party members who live in towns on the plains have been trying to get rid of their maharaja and join the Dominion. But most of his subjects are broad-faced, pug-nosed aborigines, who fled to the eastern hills nearly 40 centuries ago when Aryans invaded India. These near-naked tribesmen came down from the hills on the warpath (at the maharaja's prompting, said Congress supporters...
...Citadel Chapel. He knew that at the fortress chapel the children would get a treat-the singing of Minuit, Chretiens, now seldom heard in French Canadian churches,* as well as a Gregorian chant by a soldiers' chorus and the well-loved carols in which they all would join...