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Word: joined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unison, and then sit down to discuss the morning's row. Whether they were all wet because they had gotten splashed, I neither knew nor wished to find out. Very dry, dressed for school and engrossed in my morning paper, I didn't really have any desire to join them. They were a breed apart...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: All for One and One for All | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...order to start coaching at West Point, he was obliged to join the Army. PFC Knight earned $89 a month and all the cadets he could eat. Under an intemperate head coach named Tates Locke and an institutionalized system of hazing, Knight instantly burst forth as the most undisciplined disciplinarian since General George S. Patton, or at least Woody Hayes. By 24, he was the head coach at Army; by 30, he had moved over to Indiana University, and as of last week Knight's Hoosiers are the national champions for the third time in twelve years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: College Basketball's Knight-Errant | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

Associate Professor of History Bradford A. Lee will join eight to 10 other War College professors in teaching a course which covers "military strategy from Thucydides and the Peloponnesian war to Grenada, " he said. Lee said he chose the War College, despite offers from several other schools...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Lee Takes War College's Offer; History Prof to Teach Officers | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

...will join several other scholars at the WarCollege who at one time taught at Harvard. "Youguys turn out the best people in the field. Therewas a joke going around that the Soviets weregoing to put a plant in the War College because noone would pay attention to him since he didn'tcome from Harvard," Bernstein said...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Lee Takes War College's Offer; History Prof to Teach Officers | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

...point of death he finds a few of his old tools lying on the floor and starts to make shoes again. To the old man's surprise and delight, his sons return home from the modern shoe plant they manage and join him at an activity both familiar and strange to them. The sons are engaged in a practice wrenched from its original circumstances, geography and social environment, yet it is one that allows them to be a family again; it is a practice that is somehow their own. They, like Walzer, have become communitarians who must find their home...

Author: By David Steiner, | Title: Far From Home | 4/9/1987 | See Source »

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