Word: recruitable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Tito tried to mollify Big Brother. In a series of exchanges, their difference became clear: "Even though we love the U.S.S.R., we cannot love our own country any less," he wrote Stalin and Molotov. "We feel it is incorrect for the Soviet Intelligence Service to recruit our citizens in our country for their service [and] to have cast doubts on our leaders...
Congress did its best to remedy the situation by giving the WAAC full military status. The WAAC became the WAC. Nonetheless, in August 1943 nationwide recruiting fell to 839-and the WAC was on the brink of extinction. Then, into the mind of Captain Jessie P. Rice, a former Georgia schoolteacher and sports reporter, came the idea of the "All-States Plan," under which each state was to recruit a WAC company that would carry the state flag and wear the armband in training. Business was persuaded to help, e.g., Standard Oil Co. of Indiana sent out posters...
When World War II broke out, the colonel, then 67, was called back to help harden marines. "Come on, now, kill me," he would snarl unarmed, as they brandished their bayonets. "Why," said one recruit flattened by the colonel's jujitsu, "that old geezer knows more ways to kill you with his bare hands than any man alive...
...Corsi planned to recruit 10,000 refugee German farmers for field labor in California, in place of Mexican wetbacks. He hoped to bring in a shipload of 1,000 immigrant Italian cooks and bakers, and maybe a shipload of tailors, too, to come steaming up the Hudson in time for a July 4 picnic. He wanted to short-cut the act's delaying provisions, which require advance guarantees of jobs and housing for refugees. Unfortunately, some of his plans collided with the law as written by Congress; moreover, he initially refused to take his place as McLeod...
...George worked his way through high school (taking a year off to teach grade school), and toyed with the idea of becoming a dentist. But the drill-and-chisel profession lost a recruit when Judge U. V. Whipple, an orator of local renown, failed to show up for a Masonic convention on the Methodist camp grounds in Preston. Someone suggested that 16-year-old Walter George, the best high-school orator in those parts, stand in for the missing speaker. George was willing, spent 30 minutes preparing himself, then delivered a rousing 40-minute oration on the duties...