Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threat to peace arose in the heart of Western India. His Highness the Nawab Saheb of Junagadh, a Moslem ruling a predominantly Hindu state, decided to join Pakistan. One of his sub-chiefs, the ruler of Babariawad, applied for admission to India. The Nawab rushed troops to Babariawad. Some 60,000 of his subjects fled to India...
Since Davis Cuppers Kramer and Schroeder plan to join up with the pros before the year is ended, Pancho at 19 is obviously a rising amateur who bears watching. Long out of favor with Southern California's amateur tennis czar Perry Jones because he wouldn't stay in school (TIME, May 19), Bad Boy Pancho is now behaving himself. As a result, he no longer has to play on public courts, enjoys the luxury of the swank private tennis clubs that Jones controls...
...Skin a Cat. In Waukegan, Ill., flattered John Stebley, 67, accepted an invitation to join some boys in a football game, survived a pretty rough scrimmage, made it to a bar, discovered his wallet was gone...
...dealt once again with atomic control. "The preponderant majority of the Atomic Energy Commission" had made far-reaching proposals for effective atomic control. "Two nations [Russia and Poland] have been unwilling to join the majority ... a disturbing and ominous fact. . . . Since the U.S. realizes fully the consequences of failure to attain effective international control, we shall continue our efforts." But the Commission, he said, "may soon be faced with the conclusion that it is unable to complete the task," and he left the implications of that statement floating over the audience like a mushroom-shaped cloud...
Boss Larry MacPhail, who had wisely kept his nose out of the New York Yankees' locker room all season, rushed in to join the celebration. His Yankees had just clinched the 1947 American League pennant, and were having themselves a time...