Word: recruited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Harvard women's swim team arrived in Los Angeles last year for its annual training trip, Coach Vicki Hays tried to recruit someone to help with the driving duties. But when she asked her athletes if any of them had ever driven a van, everyone remained silent...
...were set up every hundred yards or so, and citizens were stopped, searched and asked for their identification cards. Meanwhile, squads of soldiers went house to house, looking for high school graduates to fill the ranks of the unpopular and demoralized Afghan army. When the soldiers found a potential recruit, they would take him away at gunpoint. Says an Afghan exile living in New Delhi: "It is not what you would call winning the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan...
...must be what God looks like," Blanda said. Bryant's face is brown and as rutted as the erosion of a dried-up riverbed. Under his Henry Higgins hat, the fire in his eyes could burn a hole in a vault. The twinkle in them can melt a (recruit's) mother's heart. George Wallace always expressed lavish gratitude that Bryant never ran against him for Governor...
Certain sections of a highly complicated bill aimed at reducing the nation's unemployment problem could seriously hamper the ability of Harvard and other institutions across the country to recruit foreign students and faculty, several University officials said yesterday...
...system is like nothing I've ever heard of," freshman recruit Lori Stewart says of her coach. "She's very demanding, and she gets into a lot of mental concentration-imagery training. For example, if she doesn't feel we're playing our best in practice, she'll ask us to take a few minutes, close our eyes, and think of ourselves doing the drills at our best," Steward explains...