Word: joined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Word (Sun. 3:30 p.m., CBS). Novelist Laura Z. Hobson and Historian Arthur Schlesinger join the panel on the English language...
Conversation (Thurs. 8:30p.m.,NBC). Humorists S. J. Perelman and Harry Kurnitz join Host Clifton Fadiman to discuss "What I Would Do If I Had $10 Million...
...Satisfied. When the conference was over at week's end, the areas of foreign-policy disagreement seemed to have shrunk in both size and importance, and the two governments had reached some new common ground. Especially gratifying to the British were two major decisions: ¶ The U.S. will join the military committee of the Baghdad Pact (Britain, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey), as the British have long urged. Eisenhower & Co. made the decision shortly before the conference, announced it to the British as a highly pleasant surprise. The U.S. will not become a full member of the pact...
...afflicted and humble. When doctors in 1948 told him that his wife was incurably ill of cancer and would die in three months, he turned to his Roman Catholic religion for help. If his wife could live a year, he promised in prayer, he would join the Claretian Order of the Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. She lived until last year...
...fathers. Nearly 25 percent of them will be rejected as unfit, leaving 140,000 draftable. This means that some 21-year olds will be taken, unless the 180,000 figure is lowered. Some of the available 22-year-olds will join some reserve plan, putting additional pressure on the 22-year age group and cutting further into the 21-year-old group. If conditions continue in roughly the same manner, the draft might be calling on 20-year-olds...