Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rain forced down attendance and kept four items off the agenda of a meeting of the Joint Student Association last night. Only three University departments and Radcliffe, out of eleven invited to attend, were represented at the brief meeting...
Hour for Decisions. In the past, the U.S. had shown little desire to bind hemispheric countries to joint action against Communism. But on the conference's first day, Delegate Marshall pointedly asked for debate on "the problem of foreign-inspired subversive activities." Chilean Chief Delegate Juvenal Hernandez had already plumped for an anti-Communist front. Despite Argentine and Mexican opposition, an anti-Communist resolution was in the works...
There were other items on the agenda: a new hemispheric charter, the colonies question, a joint military staff committee. But now that economic debate was knocked in the head, it began to look as though the conference could handle them all in much less time than originally planned. At week's end, some of the delegates were even talking about getting up to New York for the U.N. General Assembly's Palestine session on April 16; the more conservative guessed they would adjourn...
...they didn't bother to get married until Billie was three. She began to work at six, scrubbing steps before school and minding babies after, was only 14 ("big for my age, had big breasts, big bones") when she got her first singing job in a Harlem joint at $2 a night. Her first record (Tapping the Barrel) was made with a green young band leader named Benny Goodman, and she was soon getting feature billing...
...Beatrice's political articles to pieces and rewrote it. In 1891, thrown into each other's arms at the Lincoln Cooperative Congress, they secretly plighted their troth. A year later they were off on their honeymoon-an impassioned examination of Dublin labor problems, rounded off with a joint appearance at the Glasgow Trades Union Congress...