Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enacted: Communist forces move into a small town or hamlet early in the morning and announce their presence. The lightly armed regional government forces flee, usually without a fight, sending a plea for help to the nearest ARVN main force. The Communists lecture the villagers on Red doctrine, then recruit, enlist or impress young men into their army and perhaps levy some instant taxes. Soon the ARVN come to the rescue and, after an intense battle that may last several days and involve heavy air and artillery strikes that virtually level the village, drive the Communist forces...
Waging a full scale campaign to recruit him, the coaches from Columbia got DeMars's consent to apply. However, a history teacher -- the local radical of Classical High -- encouraged DeMars to look into Harvard...
...know that she has outlived two husbands, that she has twice moved from New England to California and back again, and that she has helped Radcliffe recruit West Coast applicants and increase scholarship funds, but most of Mr. Emmett's life remains for me a foggy past from which surprising facts occasionally emerge. (At one point, for instance, when we were talking about private airplanes, she said. "I rode in a private airplane once--with Mr. Lindbergh...
Dumonnt said state campaign organizers are expecting at least 300 student volunteers from this area and added that he hopes to recruit some of that number at a free concert Thursday in Sanders Theatre featuring folksinger Phil Ochs...
Still very much in place in his windowless west-wing office is Dwight Chapin, deputy assistant to the President, who with White House Staff Assistant Gordon Strachan had hired Donald H. Segretti to recruit agents to help "disrupt" the primary campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates. TIME reported earlier (Oct. 23) that Segretti had received from Herbert Kalmbach more than $35,000 for his services. Kalmbach in turn got the money from the secret fund in Stans' safe. This information was based on statements made by both Segretti and Kalmbach to FBI agents...