Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist Party will not join the recently organized Cominform. The U.S Reds approved the Cominform's avowed aims, the chief of which was to block U.S. aid to Europe. But they were afraid that if they joined, "the reactionary and pro-fascist forces now whipping up anti-Communist hysteria . . . would undoubtedly seize upon such action . . . as a pretext for new provocations and repressions against the Communists and all other sections of the American labor and progressive movement...
...jailed because of his politics, not his art. Along with about a thousand other schoolboys, Siqueiros made his way northward in 1913 to join General Obregón's revolutionary forces in Sonora. The children were organized into a grim "Mama's Brigade" and grew up during six years of bloody campaigning. Siqueiros was wounded, and promoted to the rank of captain. When the war was over, and his side victorious, he was sent to Paris as Mexican military attach...
...thing which I could not say then, and cannot yet say, is that my chief interest in establishing order in Germany was to prevent Germany from going communistic. I am afraid that our foolish and utterly stupid policy in regard to Germany will certainly cause them to join the Russians and thereby insure a communistic state throughout Western Europe." He believed that "all very successful commanders are prima donnas, and must be so treated. Some officers require urging, others require suggestions, very few have to be restrained...
Head cheerleader Gerald S. Spear '48 last night called on all students to join the ranks of ralliers for victory over Old Nassau's Tigers...
...never lose the bird in the shuffle. By keeping their dramatic proportions constant, they maintain the credibility of the Pipit throughout--in fact, so important does he become that he assumes a par with the RAF: winged creatures all. Bird lovers everywhere, farmers or ornithologists, forget the War and join the Pipit's Cause; and the blood, sweat and tears shed to protect the specimen for future science are convincing earmarks of a vital struggle. The dangers of disturbing tanks and black-faced egg-stealers are treated with all the consideration accorded the Dieppe incident, yet the contrast...