Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell Army Supply Chief, had ordered the pipeline built on the basis of a "wholly inadequate study" and had continued its construction in "disregard of repeated warnings by experts." Then it laid into Fleet Admiral Ernest King. He had "used the high office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the claim of military secrecy for the purpose of preventing the Congress and the people from discontinuing a costly blunder by a fellow officer who was unwilling to admit his mistake...
...fortnight ago, the Kremlin published its Dardanelles plans: it demanded joint control of the Straits with Turkey. Implied was the right to military bases on Turkish soil...
...Wherein the 21 republics agreed to take joint action against any state that might attack, or prepare to attack, one of them. In supplementary resolutions, the republics resolved to smash Nazi activity and, at request of a U.N. member, turn over Axis agents to the Allies...
Congenial Atmosphere. Before publication of the Advocate's editorial, the Commonweal, liberal Catholic weekly, took a strikingly similar position: "There is a strong sentiment among Protestants ... for joint action with Catholics on world problems. . . . It is up to Catholics to accept such gestures in the spirit in which they are offered: to greet them in all sincerity and without suspicion...
This decision, which backs up recommendations made by the Student Council earlier in the summer, was reached only because of the urgent need for food in the foreign universities which the Committee plans to help, since door to door solicitations have been prohibited by the joint action of the Student Council and the Dean's Office since...