Word: recruitable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given passes on only nine of those days. This was illustrated by two charts that the Army presented. One chart used solid black squares on a calendar to show Schine's absences. The other used white squares with black borders to show normal absences by an average recruit...
...only to wind up in the end, unhurt and at the elbow of the ultimate winner, Mao Tse-tung, sometime librarian at Peking University. With his Whampoa training, Chou shared command of Mao's peasant armies with Chu Teh, the wily soldier whom Chou had the wisdom to recruit into the party in Germany in 1922. With his administrative deftness, Chou helped Mao lay the steely wires of discipline and organization across China's 3,500,000 square miles...
...same year, Pit's well-developed sense of responsibility gave him another nudge. An earnest young man from Princeton Theological Seminary turned up at Penn Charter one day to recruit delegates to a youth conference. When he asked for volunteers, he was greeted by stony silence; when he asked if anyone would like to hear more about the conference before making up his mind, the silence became even stonier. Desperately, the seminarian asked if any boy would agree to receive promotional literature just in case someone might develop an interest, and at this point Class President Van Dusen spoke...
...year-old employee of a Communist newspaper who was arrested for disturbing the peace in a Communist demonstration. Sentence: to read one "neutral" book each month and submit a report of it to the court. Result of the case: one new recruit to the anti-Communist cause...
...Britain is standing in the need of prayer. Church membership is between 5 and 15% of the population, as opposed to 59% in the U.S. Easter Sunday attendance in Anglican Churches fell from 2,261,857 in 1930 to 1,859,008 in 1950. Clergymen are as hard to recruit as churchgoers; though the Church of England needs at least 600 new deacons each year, only 380 are expected in 1954. A recent survey by the magazine Picture Post found only ten in one group of 40 R.A.F. cadets who had any idea how Christmas got its name...