Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President is prepared to fight back, and he doubtless estimates that he will have more of a chance with Rockefeller at his side, operating as a kind of domestic Henry Kissinger. Without additional formal title but with clear authority from Ford, Rockefeller will recruit a brain trust to delve into every aspect of domestic policy; he will arbitrate among conflicting Cabinet proposals and formulate plans for allocation of the nation's natural and financial resources. To give so much clout to a man with presidential ambitions of his own would seem to be an act of singular self-effacement...
Barnaby explains the reason to be that "We don't aggressively recruit squash players." He added, "I don't believe that I should decide who comes to Harvard. I should only make the most of what we have here...
William L. Bruce '46, vice dean and affirmative action officer of the Law School, said yesterday that the Law School's appointments committee is "really making an intensive effort" to recruit minority members, but that recruitment is difficult...
...California in 1940, but he decided instead to remain in the Palmach. During World War II he and other members of the organization fought for the British in Vichy-held Syria and Lebanon. In later years he has loved to tell about the time when, as a green recruit, he was ordered to cut a telephone line in Syria; only when the pole began to wobble did he realize that he had cut the guy wire instead of the vital telephone link...
...then Majors was itching for another move and Pitt was more than willing to pay the price. Johnny's brother Joe was dispatched to Pittsburgh under an assumed name to confer with school officials. He came back with the promise that Majors could recruit with few Limitations, would earn a salary estimated at $30,000 and have his own half-hour television show-a job worth at least $10,000. Majors was more than satisfied...