Word: joined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Football songs will mix with Bach Friday evening when the Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs join in their annual pre-Yale game concert. Only a few tickets are still unsold for the 1,200-seat Sanders Theater...
...after Pearl Harbor, tall, grizzle-bearded Aristocles Spyrou tried to join the U.S. Army. But he was turned down as too old (56) and so he went back to his duties as Archbishop Athenagoras, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America. Born in a little Greek town under Turkish rule, Athenagoras frequently reminded his U.S. flock of their good fortune. "Just to be here," he would say, "that is happiness...
Secondly, the Communists are evidently trying to put de Gaulle in power. Their hold on labor will be stronger under a conservative government, and many radicals who are now for Queille might join them. The Communist Party is doing everything it can to wreck the socialist coalition; and if the socialists fall, it will be de Gaulle--not Communist leader Thorez--who will take charge. Under a de Gaulle government, Communist agitation through the unions would force an already conservative leader to move further towards dictatorship...
...outlining the purpose of his organization, Gordon stated, "Never before has the need for a strong progressive movement been felt so clearly throughout the country. As responsible students we shall join that movement, and shall fight on all fronts to protect our democracy and at the same time to extend it and make it grow...
...stabilization" and on into a new period of change, and so on; and--note this--each of these periods lasts, with one or two exceptions, from 12 to 16 years. Now I'm not saying that Schlesinger would feel he had to get up there on the platform and join those jolly good sports who are making such a noise and a bother about "eating crow." Among the past exceptions to his theory was the 32-year period from 1869 to 1901, and he has explained it so that it doesn't alter the theory...