Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nightfall on the invasion's first day, the U.S. force was far from firmly in control of Grenada. It was not until 7:12 a.m. on Wednesday that the Marines were able to overcome troops besieging the Governor General's mansion and join the Seals who were inside it. Scoon and 32 civilians with him asked to be taken out of Grenada for their own protection. They were carried by helicopter to the Guam...
...Soviet walkout threat and announced that NATO planned unilaterally to scrap 1,400 existing warheads in Western Europe during the next five or six years. The weapons are part of the alliance's stockpile of tactical nuclear arms, which many experts feel are obsolescent and redundant; they would join 1,000 old warheads that have already been withdrawn in anticipation of the deployment of the 572 new missiles...
...story stucco factory in Turin, was founded in 1916 as a manufacturer of men's socks. His parents fled to Switzerland in 1943 to escape Fascist antiSemitism, but returned to Turin after World War II to rebuild their shattered plant. When Vitale left school to join the company full time in the late 1960s, he immediately set out to diversify it. "In this world," he says, "it's very important to understand things 15 minutes before somebody else...
When Susannah Heschel was growing up as a rabbi's daughter in New York City, she once attended a Simhat Torah celebration, during which men traditionally dance for joy while holding scrolls of Scripture. She wanted to join the dance, which is forbidden to women, and under the disapproving eyes of many in the crowd, joined her father in the festivities. When asked who had given her permission, Susannah snapped...
...game itself--unfamiliar to most players before they join the squad--requires speed, stamina, and endurance. "There's constant running for 80 minutes of continuous play with practically no substitutions," says Kingston, a former player himself for Manchester University...