Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After four days of cordiality and handshaking, and just before General de Gaulle took off for a brief visit to Hyde Park and New York, there came a joint formal statement from the White House. Its gist: the two leaders had found "a fundamental harmony between French and American aims," and had agreed on "even closer cooperation in the future...
...General Mobilization." Meanwhile, practical defense measures continued. The Japanese Government issued a national appeal to Japan's transport workers to be ready to sacrifice their "very lives" to maintain vital transportation services. Radio Tokyo broadcast that the "general mobilization for production" would continue. In a joint statement the military and civilian authorities emphasized the old order that all Japanese "guilty of disquieting speech and behavior, also those spreading rumors" would be "strictly punished according to the military code...
That familiar plague of practical internationalism-language trouble-had also contributed to the delay. Even before the Potsdam statement needled the London conference to faster action, the British, French and Russian legalists working with U.S. Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson had reached substantial agreement. The joint "master trial" (probably in the Nürnberg Court House) will be followed by thousands of local trials in each of the injured countries...
...vice chairman of the joint administration office of the four Government banks it appointed Premier Soong (chairman: Generalissimo Chiang). T. V. replaced his ailing brother-in-law, H. H. ("Daddy") Kung, 64, onetime top man of Chinese finance and administration, now virtually retired from public office...
Horatio's hero is always a prince in disguise, playing the part of a fiddler, a bootblack, a hired boy, but with at tractive, cheerful and resolute features under the dirt. His mother, always a widow, is tormented by the village squire, who plays the joint role of Penelope's suitors. The hero meets a stranger and rescues his child from drowning (or from a mad dog or a runaway horse). The stranger turns out to be a rich merchant, who gives the boy new clothes, then sends him on a mission, a sort of knightly quest...