Word: joined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gasperi, looking happier than he had in years, cried with shaking voice: "We are not reactionaries. Every social reform which has been promised will be made." Of the Popular Front's 8,000.000 voters he said: "We are working to convert them." He also indicated that Italy would join the Western Union, but hoped that her peace treaty would first be softened...
...enforcements from Galicia; waves of bombers swept over the defenseless ghetto, raining incendiaries and high explosive. It took them 42 days to level every building. A few hundred Jews-all that were left of the 50,000 in the ghetto six weeks before-escaped through the sewers to join the guerrillas...
...issue came to a head with the formation nationally of ADA, a specifically non-Communist organization pledged to the extension of "the Roosevelt-Willkie tradition." To join this group, HLU had to amend its constitution, and, further, join SDA (ADA's student branch), as individuals. This latter provision met with strenuous objection from the AYD sympathizers, but after several ballots the motion was passed and HLU settled into its current "Roosevelt-Willkie" tradition, joining SDA last fall. HLU's affiliation with this group is loose, the Harvard branch maintaining autonomy with occasional...
...mobile guards kept Communist demonstrators at more than arm's length, the Communists' great enemy, Charles de Gaulle, spoke from a barge anchored in the Old Port to a throng of 100,000 on the docks. He offered not one hand but two to all who would join his movement. He said that "our arms are wide open to others"-which seemed to indicate that he still had lively hopes of a deal with Premier Robert Schuman...
Ideas & Ideals. But all the bravos in South America and in Turin, where he conducted next, couldn't have kept Toscanini from a job he had his eye on. With his cello under his arm, he scurried to Milan to join the orchestra-as second cellist-that was preparing the premiere of Verdi's new opera, Otello...