Word: joined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading The Sun Also Rises and auditing three lectures by Crane Brinton, we have decided that mere belief in the principles of democracy will not suffice. So, we have pledged ourselves and our lives to a Harvard Brigade which will join the forces of Fidel Castro in his battle against the soldiers of the Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista...
...addition to these elite, several sophomore Whiz Kids blossomed out to join the ranks of the heroic. John deKiewiet was unbeaten all year in the high jump. Consistently around six feet, two inches, he appears sure bet to erase the one blot on Harvard's glorious escutcheon--a feeble 6 feet 31/2 inch high jump record...
...liquidation of foreign bases, a ban on arms shipments, agreement by the "great powers," i.e., the West, to renounce "all attempts to involve these countries in military blocs." Among the reasons for the U.S. rejection: if the Middle East states feel themselves threatened, they have every right to join "with other nations in legitimate collective-security arrangements," e.g., the Baghdad Pact, and the U.S. wants no part of a big-power attempt, "as suggested by the U.S.S.R.," to abrogate this right. Net effect of the U.S. reply: to put Moscow on notice that the U.S. intends to go ahead with...
Macmillan has other topics he is anxious to discuss with Ike. He would like the U.S. to join the Baghdad Pact, at least as a member of the military committee. (The U.S. will probably refuse, on the ground that to do so would alienate other Arab countries which the U.S. is trying to influence through the more amorphous Eisenhower Doctrine.) Macmillan may seek support for some modification of U.N. procedure so that the great powers will not be so much at the mercy of the Afro-Asian bloc in the General Assembly. He is prepared to discuss Britain...
...full rehearsal and you NEVER know-where you are." She twirled a baton-"Gotta get in shape with my magic wand" -then skipped off to sing her one number, Impossible ("for a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage, for a plain country bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage...