Word: joined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phone to be in the booth, for it is absolutely necessary that one of the crowd be able to answer the phone if it should ring. There are no extra credits awarded for placing a call midst the squash, and if the boys can get a few coeds to join in, there should be no necessity to call...
King Paul gave him the Medal of Bravery, and Parliament passed a law promoting Colonel Grivas to lieutenant general (only the King is a full general), awarded him full pay of $300 a month for life. Political parties besieged him to join them-but he put them off. First he had to rest, to have three teeth pulled and an injured finger treated...
First he tried simple pressure. University students got letters warning them that they would be expelled if their farmer parents did not socialize. In factories, workers from farming families who would not join the collectives were fired. Finally the party ordered into the villages "500 comrades much experienced in political and organizational work" to help teams of local Communists "encourage" farmers to sign up in collectives...
...cruelly beaten yesterday. His hair was torn out, and he was kicked and then sat upon. The poor man continued to say, 'I won't sign.' In A. [a neighboring village] things are the same. They beat up 29 people and forced them to join collectives. There is not a day that passes that 40 or 50 men don't come through the village looking for people who have not joined...
...bares it at least once a program. But unfortunately, Clint, according to the people he works with, is "a mighty mixed-up kid." He is a nature-food crank, demands The Star Treatment at all times. Born in Hartford, Ill.. Norman Eugene Walker quit high school to join the merchant marine, steeplejacked, punched cows in Texas, got married at 21. Van Johnson discovered him working as a deputy sheriff in Las Vegas...