Word: joining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side, he is. In the ante-bellum days the family estate near Leesville was a showplace of the state, with white mansion house, hundreds of slaves, fine horses and good bourbon. There was even a Confederate colonel in the picture: Grandfather James Louis Arthur, who rode proudly off to join the Army of Robert E. Lee, returned to live out his days selling off acre by acre to keep up the old mansion...
Restless, adventurous Nico was not to be home for long. At 17 he wanted to join the army, but an uncle took him in hand and put him to work loading at the Black Sea port of Zonguldak. That, says Erato, "is where the worm got him"-in Zonguldak, among the Communist seamen who lured him off to Russia...
...Solomons group. His mother had been captured by his father's head-hunting tribe in a raid on another island. ("My people heathen, you know-killing one another.") When the Adventists set up a school in the beach village, young Salau ran away from home to join, and eventually became a pastor. Now, he estimates he has had a hand, in converting some 2,000 natives in the Pacific islands. Says Salau...
...overseas relief agency for 20 Protestant and three Eastern Orthodox denominations, took a decisive step to make up the deficit: it launched a campaign to arouse Protestant interest in the plight of Europe's homeless. Designating June as "D.P. Action Month," C.W.S. asked each member church to join in furnishing the assurance of job, housing and transportation from port of arrival which the law requires before D.P.s can embark for America. For June C.W.S. set its goal at 18,000 new "assurances," more than fivefold the 3,340 it has received in the last eight months under the Displaced...
...gather 'in a dim-lit space, whirling around & around one another, emitting a low hum. This, according to one theory, excites and attracts the females. Certainly any female that comes near the swarming males is never the same again. Some observers claim to have seen the same female join the same swarm repeatedly...