Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family moved from Nigena to England after civil war broke out there in 1967. From the age of 10 until about 15, soccer was Udo's first love. But then a friend of his older brother's--one of Udo's seven siblings--convinced the Nigerian native to join the Shakesbury Harriers a local track club...
...steady increase in applications. Says Colonel Manley Rogers, director of admissions for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point: "If someone wishes to complete his basic training by Christmas '83, he should go and enlist immediately. In recent years, there has never been such a queue to join the Army...
LAIER when Robert Kennedy decided to join the fray, he would ask Lowenstein to shift to his camp. Torn between friendship and respect for Kennedy and his commitment to back McCarthy, Lowenstein said no Kennedy retreated to the back of the bus on which the group was riding, and scribbled Lowenstein a note. "For A1, who knew the lesson of Emerson and taught it to the rest of us," it read. "They did not yet see ... that if a single man plant himself on his convictions and then abide, the huge world will come round to him. From his friend...
...upkeep of a spacious Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library, which has finally found a home in San Clemente, Calif. An 80,000-sq.-ft. building, including a museum, is planned on a 13-acre, $6.5 million site in the city where Nixon had his Western White House. It will join the libraries and museums of seven other Presidents, built with private funds but staffed and maintained by the Government at a cost of $14.9 million this year. These modern pyramids have been getting ever more grandiose. Franklin D. Roosevelt started the trend when he built his own library at Hyde...
...instead, it will be UMass (now 12-1-1) which will make its first ever trip to the Final Four next weekend at the University of Pennsylvania With Saturday's quarterfinal win, UMass will join Temple, Penn State and Maryland, the tourney's top three seeds, in the showdown for the national title...