Word: joining
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...fall of 1936, it appeared the war would be a triumph both for the Republic and for the idea of the popular front For the first time, communists were participating in a non-communist government. The anarchists, who had broad support among the lower classes, had finally consented to join the coalition, and were more importantly sending troops to fight the Fascists. Everything had taken a turn for the better, so it seemed. But in an attempt to hold the continued support of the bourgeoisie, the ruling group pleaded the necessity for "iron discipline" on the home front, and thus...
Ready and able to join after her May ordination is Amy Eilberg, 30. "The long vigil is over," she said gratefully. During the next few years she will be followed by 18 other women now in the rabbinical program at the New York City seminary, the only such school in the Conservative branch. Eilberg's assembly membership provides critical recognition for her as a Conservative rabbi. The rabbi-to-be, who is married to a religion scholar, is considering a hospital chaplaincy or a job at a synagogue in southern Indiana near her home. The Conservatives' change "creates a synthesis...
Determined to expose Fevvers for the sham she must be, Walser resolves to follow in the wake of her newfound renown. That means somehow joining the circus of Colonel Kearney, a bizarre Kentuckian who has hired Fevvers to join a historic round-the-world tour: the American plans to outstrip Hannibal, taking a full troupe of performers and animals ("tuskers across the tundra!") from St. Petersburg to Japan, by way of Siberia, and thence on to Seattle. Walser is hired as a clown...
...into Thailand, some 25 miles south of the camps holding 60,000 refugees who had fled earlier in the assault when the Vietnamese rolled over non-Communist resistance units. Khmer Rouge guerrillas who had fought around Phnom Malai began to filter in the opposite direction, deeper into Kampuchea, to join some 30,000 of their comrades who are engaging the Vietnamese in hit-and-run warfare...
...better at toasting the good times than Ronald Reagan, and few other Presidents have invested quite so much political capital in doing so. If Reagan really intends to lead the nation into a second American revolution of hope and opportunity, he will have to join the budget debate and other battles that were bursting around him last week. The President had earned his right to a birthday evening of soaring spirits and celebratory prose. But birthdays come only once a year...